Jhumpa Lahiri Quotes

Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.

Everything is nothing when you got no one.

Many a housewife staring at the back of her husband's newspaper, or listening to his breathing in bed is lonelier than any spinster in a rented room.

These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

Marriage is lonelier than solitude.

Marriage will not solve "aloneness."

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

I felt very alone in Hollywood.

It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold.

I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.

I don't like being alone.

The higher one climbs the lonelier one is.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

Maybe existence is ultimately a lonely thing.

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.

The writer is all alone.