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When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was read more
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious read more
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.
So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
To be adult is to be alone.
To be adult is to be alone.
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.
Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces read more
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.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the read more
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.