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
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
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
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
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
-Criss Jami
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
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"
