I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.

I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.

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.

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.

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" read more

Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state read more

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion read more

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

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

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

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.

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

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