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
Quotations
Loneliness
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.
-Mizu Sahara
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
-Joseph Gordon Levitt
"The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1"
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
