“When we examine the moments, acts, and statements of all kinds of people- not only the grief and ecstasy of the greatest poets, but also the huge unhappiness of the average soul, as evidenced by the innumerable strident words of abuse, hatred, contempt, mistrust, and scorn that forever grate upon ou…”— Thomas Wolfe, unz.org
“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.”— Thomas Wolfe, unz.org
“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”— Kahlil Gibran, amazon.com
“More and more I found myself at a loss for words and didn’t want to hear other people talking either. Their conversations seemed false and empty. I preferred to look at the sea, which said nothing and never made you feel alone.”— Paula McLain, amazon.com
“I got the idea for the pilot while walking through an empty lot of a movie studio. There were all the evidences of a community but with no people. I felt at the time a kind of encroaching loneliness, and desolation; a feeling of how nightmarish it would be to wind up in a city with no inhabitants.”— Rod Serling, en.wikiquote.org
“You see, we can feed the stomach with concentrates, we can supply microfilm for reading, recreation, even movies of a sort, we can pump oxygen in, and waste material out, but there’s one thing we can’t simulate. That’s a very basic need. Man’s hunger for companionship. The barrier of loneliness, tha…”— Rod Serling, goodreads.com
“There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.”— Gore Vidal, amazon.com
“I can’t help it. It’s tearing me all up inside. I’m like that all through. I can’t help it.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.”— Ursula K. Le Guin, amazon.com
“She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much”— Betty Smith, amazon.com
“People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.”— Kim Culbertson, amazon.com
“There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“I was so tired of being alone, but I was always alone, even with people around me. And I was so tired of being surrounded, but I was always surrounded, even when I was by myself.”— Maggie Stiefvater, amazon.com
“Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.”— C. G. Jung, amazon.com
“Being lonely is OK, and not everyone has to like you. You can’t always rely on people.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com