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
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
-Phoebe Steon
"The Boy on Cinnamon Street"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Great Gatsby"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
