| Author |
Quotes |
| Anton Checkov | People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. |
| Conrad Aiken | Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know. |
| Eugene O'Neill | Man's loneliness is but his fear of life. |
| Friedrich Nietszche | The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters. |
| Jean Rostand | To be adult is to be alone. |
| Joseph Conrad | 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. |
| Joseph F Newton | People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges. |
| Mother Teresa | Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. |
| Norman Cousins | The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness. |
| Paul Tillich | Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone. |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. |
| Thomas Wolfe | The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. |
| Thomas Wolfe | 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. |
| Vincent Van Gogh | One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it. |
| Francis Bacon | 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. |
| Mark Twain | Be good and you will be lonely. |
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