Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
Quotations
Loneliness
People who do a job that claims to be creative have to be alone to recharge their batteries. You can’t live 24 hours a day in the spotlight and remain creative. For people like me, solitude is a victory.
-Karl Lagerfeld
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
-Lois Lowry
"The Giver"
Man’s loneliness is but his fear of life.
-Eugene O'Neill
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 would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
-David Levithan
"Every Day"
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
-Jean Paul Sartre
There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering.
- John O'donohue
"Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom"
