Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The Angel's Game"
Quotations
Loneliness
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 isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
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
"Observatory Mansions"
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
-Lois Lowry
"The Giver"
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
