I'm tired of living unable to love anyone. I don't have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can't even love myself. Why is that? Why can't I love myself? It's because I can't love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someone else. Do you understand what I am saying? A person who is incapable of loving another cannot properly love himself.

That's love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other.

A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.

Every time I think of living as a member of society, according to the organization of society, I become unpleasantly aware that from first to last man lives his life alone, by himself.

The loneliness of the long-distance runner.

Stretch a hand to one unfriended And thy loneliness is ended.

... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

The deepest need of man is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of aloneness.

Wouldn't it be nice if all the people who are lonesome could live in one big dormitory, sleep in beds next to each other, talk, laugh, and keep the lights on as long as they want to?

Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

Oh lonesome's a bad place To get crowded into.

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

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.

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

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.

In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Real loneliness consists not in being alone, but in being with the wrong person, in the suffocating darkness of a room in which no deep communication is possible.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.