To be alone is the fate of all great minds – a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.
If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act.
The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.
I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have. Let’s drink more wine!
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.
I’m afraid that sometimes you’ll play lonely games too. Games you can’t win ’cause you’ll play against you.
Writing, at its best, is a lonely life.
Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn’t have to be a lonely kind of thing.
He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.
I’m all alone, but I’m not lonely.
I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love, always in search of the absolute, always seeking the unattainable.
Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?
People are strange when you’re a stranger.
What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.
Even if the whole world turns their back on you, you will always have yourself.
Dark and lonely. I need somebody to hold me.