The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

To be adult is to be alone.

To be adult is to be alone.

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.

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces read more

Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

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.

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

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

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

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.