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"
Quotations
Loneliness
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
-Henry Rollins
"The Portable Henry Rollins"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
