Quotations
Loneliness
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
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
- Henry David Thoreau
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
- Henrik Ibsen
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
- Megan Whalen Turner
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
- Aldous Huxley
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
- John Powell
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
- Edward Carey
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
- Wendell Berry
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
- John Steinbeck
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
- Henry Rollins
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