Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Quotations
Loneliness
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.
-John Powell
"Will the Real Me Please Stand Up?: 25 Guidelines for Good Communication"
Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
-Phoebe Steon
"The Boy on Cinnamon Street"
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present.
-Alan Lightman
"Einstein's Dreams"
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
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"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
