If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
Quotations
Loneliness
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
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
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 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"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
Though we longed not to be lonely, we also feared the pain it would take us to be brought out of our lonely states. And after that fear, could we be guaranteed that we would never be returned to a state of loneliness again? We could not.
-Edward Carey
"Observatory Mansions"
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
