I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Quotations
Loneliness
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.
-Deb Caletti
"The Fortunes of Indigo Skye"
If you smile when you are alone, then you really mean it.
-Andy Rooney
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
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"
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Loneliness is not a result of physical isolation; you're only lonely the day you realize that nobody shares your opinions.
-Sabah Carrim
"Humeirah"
A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.
-Criss Jami
