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
It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade.
-Mizu Sahara
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
-Charlotte Brontë
We have all known the long loneliness and we have learned that the only solution is love and that love comes with community.
-Dorothy Day
"The Long Loneliness: The Autobiography of the Legendary Catholic Social Activist"
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
