People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

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.

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

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

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

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

Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it read more

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.

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.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

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

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

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.