Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
Quotations
Loneliness
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
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"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.
-Suzanne Collins
"Mockingjay"
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
-John Powell
"Will the Real Me Please Stand Up?: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication"
