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"
Loneliness isn’t a lack of people. It is a lack of understanding and acceptance.
-Bronnie Ware
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
ut there are other words for privacy and independence. They are isolation and loneliness.
-Megan Whalen Turner
"The King of Attolia"
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
