I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Quotations
Loneliness
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
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"
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
-Criss Jami
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"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
