Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.
-Allison Burnett
"Undiscovered Gyrl"
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
