"Man's loneliness is but his fear of life."
- Eugene O'Neill
"No man is an Island intire of it self every man is a peece of the Continent a part of the maine if a Clod be washed away by the sea Europe is the lesse as well as if a Promontorie were as well a..."
- John Donne
"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 Conrad
"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."
- Francis Bacon
"Where you used to be there is a hole in the world which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime and falling into at night. I miss you like hell."
- Edna St. Vincent Millay
"The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness."
- Norman Cousins
"Language has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone and the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone."
- Paul Tillich
"If I'm such a legend then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you."
- Judy Garland
"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."
- Mother Teresa