Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The Angel's Game"
Quotations
Loneliness
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Language... has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
-Paul Johannes Tillich
"The Eternal Now"
Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions.
-Sabah Carrim
"Humeirah"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
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
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
