I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
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"
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
-F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The Great Gatsby"
The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.
-Joseph Gordon Levitt
"The Tiny Book of Tiny Stories: Volume 1"
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
-Douglas Coupland
"Shampoo Planet"
We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.
-Dejan Stojanović
Solitude is where one discovers one is not alone.
-Marty Rubin
Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
