I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Quotations
Loneliness
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
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"
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
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
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
