An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.

Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

My peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication - it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness - it is all that I have - and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

My inspiration are the woman, friendship, and loneliness.