Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
-Soraya
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
Because, once alone, it is impossible to believe that one could ever have been otherwise. Loneliness is an absolute discovery.
-Marilynne Robinson
"Housekeeping"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
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
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
