Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

To be adult is to be alone.

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Be good and you will be lonely.

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.