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
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
-Eda LeShan
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
-Criss Jami
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"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
I felt very lonely when they were all there.
-Ernest Hemingway
"A Farewell to Arms"
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
