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.

She had figured out that the most pervasive American disease was loneliness, and that even people at the top often suffered from it, and that they could be surprisingly responsive to attractive strangers who were friendly.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

It is better to be lonely than to wish to be alone.

If you think nobody cares if you're alive or dead, try missing a couple of car payments.

Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.

Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

Whom the heart of man shuts out, Sometimes the heart of God takes in, And fences them all round about With silence mid the worlds loud din.