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
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
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"
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
-Lois Lowry
"The Giver"
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
Lonely was much better than alone.
-Toni Morrison
"The Bluest Eye"
