Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.
-Lawrence Durrell
Quotations
Loneliness
Even if you are alone you wage war with yourself.
-Dejan Stojanović
Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.
-Phoebe Steon
"The Boy on Cinnamon Street"
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
-Henry David Thoreau
When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.
-Eda LeShan
Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.
-Criss Jami
It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.
-David Foster Wallace
"Infinite Jest"
Sometimes being surrounded by everyone is the loneliest, because you'll realise you have no one to turn to.
-Soraya
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
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
-John Steinbeck
"Of Mice and Men"
