When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.
I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.
There is a place in the heart that will never be filled; a space. And even during the best moments, and the greatest times, we will know it.
If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.
I am in truth the Steppenwolf that I often call myself; that beast astray that finds neither home nor joy nor nourishment in a world that is strange and incomprehensible to him.
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and – in spite of True Romance magazines – we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.
But you people do not understand me, and I am afraid you never will.
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.
If you fear loneliness, then don’t get married.
Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class – which again breeds isolation, loneliness.
We live as we dream – alone...
We live as we dream – alone. While the dream disappears, the life continues painfully.
I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.
If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.
Some walks you have to take alone.
Loneliness becomes a lover, solitude a darling sin.
The strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone.
I’m not alone, but I am lonely without you.
The loneliest moment in life is when you have just experienced that which you thought would deliver the ultimate, and it has just let you down.
If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.