I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Quotations
Loneliness
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
-Jarod Kintz
"This Book is Not for Sale"
Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.
-Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The Angel's Game"
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
-Henry Rollins
Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
-Soraya
Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.
-Wendell Berry
"A Place on Earth"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
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"
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
