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.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

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.

Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.