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
Quotations
Loneliness
Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
"The Eternal Now"
Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions.
-Sabah Carrim
"Humeirah"
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
