Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
Quotations
Loneliness
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
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"
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
-Deb Caletti
"The Fortunes of Indigo Skye"
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
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
