Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
-John Powell
"Will the Real Me Please Stand Up?: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication"
Quotations
Loneliness
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
-Henry Rollins
"The Portable Henry Rollins"
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
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-Dorothy Day
"The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist"
My sleep wasn't peaceful, though. I have the sense of emerging from a world of dark, haunted places where I traveled alone.
-Suzanne Collins
"Mockingjay"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
