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"
Quotations
Loneliness
We live as we dream--Alone.
-Joseph Conrad
"Heart of Darkness"
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tellyou that solitude is fine.
-Honoré De Balzac
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
I'll never forget how the depression and loneliness felt good and bad at the same time. Still does.
-Henry Rollins
"The Portable Henry Rollins"
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"
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.
-Wayne W. Dyer
