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
Quotations
Loneliness
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
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"
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
-Henry Rollins
