“I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.”
Carson McCullers
“Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.”
Dag Hammarskjold
“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.”
Kurt Vonnegut
“People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.”
Margaret Cho
“Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone”
Maya Angelou
“I have friends who I get along with who I know get very uncomfortable being alone, unless they're with people, talking all the time. Whether it's on the phone, or in person, they're never by themselves. Whereas I could be alone for months”
Viggo Mortensen
“With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.”
Eric Hoffer