Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books written because authors couldn't find anyone to talk to.
-Alain De Botton
"The Consolations of Philosophy"
Quotations
Loneliness
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
-Karl Lagerfeld
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink"
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
-Deb Caletti
"The Fortunes of Indigo Skye"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
-Soraya
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
-Joseph Gordon Levitt
"The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1"
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
