Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
-Henry Rollins
Quotations
Loneliness
Learning from other people's mistakes is better than making your own. And it is easier to live lonely than to have a broken heart.
-Aria Adams
"Reminiscence"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
-Eda LeShan
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"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
