I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Quotations
Loneliness
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
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
-Lois Lowry
"The Giver"
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
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"
