When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
Quotations
Loneliness
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
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"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
