You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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.
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.
We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.
It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.
Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.
We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.
The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
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