The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

To be adult is to be alone.

To be adult is to be alone.

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.