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
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
-Criss Jami
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
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"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
