Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Quotations
Loneliness
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.
-Aldous Huxley
"Brave New World"
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
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"
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
-Tennessee Williams
"Camino Real"
Even the company of the mad was better than the company of the dead.
-Stephen King
"The Stand"
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"
