Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
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"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
-Criss Jami
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"
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
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
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"