The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
-Deb Caletti
"The Fortunes of Indigo Skye"
Quotations
Loneliness
Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
-Soraya
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
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"
Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
-D. H. Lawrence
"Lady Chatterley's Lover"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
