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
Quotations
Loneliness
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
-Woody Allen
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
-Mother Teresa
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
All great and precious things are lonely.
-John Steinbeck
"East of Eden"
When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.
-Mitch Albom
"The Time Keeper"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.
-Sorin Cerin
"Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom"
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
-Maya Angelou
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
