I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
-Lois Lowry
"The Giver"
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
-Criss Jami
What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?
-Henrik Ibsen
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
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
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
I have no privacy. But I feel so alone.
-Susan Beth Pfeffer
"Life As We Knew It"
