"Be good and you will be lonesome." (Carl Sandburg)

"Being alone is in the deepest sense the human condition. Loneliness is the disease of feeling isolated, cut off from human contact and human warmth. Some people battle all their lives against this poignant emotion, struggling constantly to come to terms with the immutable fact of their existence: that all human beings are separate, one from another, and will remain so all their lives; each sealed within a thin veneer of skin. If this struggle is successful, the individual ultimately transcends his physical limitations and becomes most himself precisely because he is closely bound to others."
(Eric P. Mosse, The Conquest of Loneliness)

"Liverpool can be very lonely on a Saturday night, and it's only Thursday morning."
(Paul Angelis, as Ringo, Yellow Submarine, 1968)

"The injustice of it is almost perfect! The wrong people going hungry, the wrong people being loved, the wrong people dying! Was I really wrong to believe that there's a--a kind of--burning virility of mind and spirit that looks for something as powerful as itself? The heaviest, strongest creatures in this world seem to be the loneliest."
(John Osborne, Look Back in Anger)

"The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
(Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche)

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.
(Thomas Wolfe)

To transform the emptiness of loneliness, to the fullness of aloneness. Ah, that is the secret of life.
(Sunita Khosla)

Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.
(William Arthur Ward)

Each person was to himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if i should call for help, would anyone hear... would it even matter?
(Ray Bradbury, "Dandelion Wine")

When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.
(Mother Teresa)

God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.
(Paul Valery)

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
(Pearl S. Buck)