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.

To be adult is to be alone.

To be adult is to be alone.

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.

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.

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.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state read more

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is.

Loneliness is about the scariest thing there is.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

Be good and you will be lonely.

Be good and you will be lonely.