I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Great Gatsby"
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
-Phoebe Steon
"The Boy on Cinnamon Street"
Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
-Soraya
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
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
-Lois Lowry
"The Giver"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
