Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.
-D. H. Lawrence
"Lady Chatterley's Lover"
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"
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
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"
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
-Albert Einstein
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
