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"
Quotations
Loneliness
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New 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"
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
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
Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
"The Eternal Now"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
