Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Quotations
Loneliness
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"
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"
Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.
-Wendell Berry
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company.
-Booker T. Washington
I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.
-David Levithan
"Every You, Every Me"
Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
-Soraya
Be good and you will be lonesome.
-Mark Twain
"Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World"
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
