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.

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.

Loneliness breaks the spirit.

Loneliness breaks the spirit.

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.

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.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would read more

Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.

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.

To be adult is to be alone.

To be adult is to be alone.