Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Quotations
Loneliness
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!
-Edith Wharton
"The Age of Innocence"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
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"
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
