I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
Quotations
Loneliness
Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink"
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
-Edward Carey
"Observatory Mansions"
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
-Karl Lagerfeld
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
