Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Quotations
Loneliness
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
-Alan Lightman
"Einstein's Dreams"
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
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
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
-D. H. Lawrence
"Lady Chatterley's Lover"
