I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.
-Orhan Pamuk
Quotations
Loneliness
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
-Arthur C. Clarke
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
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"
Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
-Charles Bukowski
"Women"
I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.
-Louisa May Alcott
"Little Women"
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
-George Eliot
To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
-Suzanne Gordon
Loneliness is the unloneliest feeling in the world, as everyone has experienced it.
-Jarod Kintz
"This Book is Not for Sale"
Don’t try to hog loneliness and keep it all to yourself. Share it with a special someone.
-Jarod Kintz
"The Titanic would never have sunk if it were made out of a sink"
