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
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.
-Sorin Cerin
"Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom"
