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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious read more
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.
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was read more
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven't thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity - but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
Be good and you will be lonely.
Be good and you will be lonely.
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the read more
Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.
Who knows what true loneliness is -- not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it read more
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.
Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" read more
Language... 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.