Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Quotations
Loneliness
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
-Wendell Berry
"A Place on Earth"
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
-Henry Rollins
"The Portable Henry Rollins"
My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.
-Suzanne Collins
"Mockingjay"
