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 are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
-Jules Renard
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
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"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
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"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Thirsty for attention is a cry of loneliness.
-Toba Beta
"My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut"
