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
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.
-Mizu Sahara
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
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"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
