“Make friends with pain, and you will never be alone.~Ken Chlouber, Colorado miner and creator of the Leadville Trail 100 mile race”

“Every single one of us possesses the strength to attempt something he isn't sure he can accomplish. It can be running a mile, or a 10K race, or 100 miles. It can be changing a career, losing 5 pounds, or telling someone you love her”

Scott Jurek (1973) American ultramarthon runner

“The pleasantest of all diversions is to sit alone under the lamp, a book spread out before you, and to make friends with people of a distant past you have never known.”

Yoshida Kenkō (1283–1350) japanese writer

“The distant soul can shake the distant friend's soul and make the longing felt, over untold miles.”

John Masefield (1878–1967) English poet and writer

“Shakespeare, in a play, brought in a number of men saying they had suffered shipwreck in Bohemia, where there is no sea by some 100 miles.”

Ben Jonson (1572–1637) English writer

“There are never words for the strongest of our feelings. There is just the pain that we cannot share. Pain we must all feel alone.”

James Frey book The Final Testament of the Holy Bible

“You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy who goes home alone. Cause without the bitter, baby, the sweet ain't as sweet.”

Cameron Crowe (1957) Academy Award-winning American writer and film director

“We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“Can miles truly separate you from friends… If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there?”

Richard Bach (1936) American spiritual writer

“Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.”

Chanakya (-375–-283 BC) Ancient Indian statesman and philosopher