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

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?

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

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

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

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

Better be quarreling than lonesome.

The loneliness of the long-distance runner.

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.

Tired of humanity and its heritage Laden with a tiny heart emptied of its contents, We wander each in his own way, purposeless and helpless... .