Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

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.

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 surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.