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
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
-Jarod Kintz
"This Book is Not for Sale"
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
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
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
