One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.

I like to enjoy myself, but rest assured that I can be as serious as anyone else can.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.

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.

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.

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have read more

What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone.

Be good and you will be lonely.

Be good and you will be lonely.

If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have read more

If you live to be 100, I hope I live to be 100 minus 1 day, so I never have to live without you.