“I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.”
Tori Amos (1963) American singer
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
Don Quixote in Prologue
Variant: When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Source: Camino Real (1953)
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Source: The Scarlet Letter (1850), Chapter IV: The Interview
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That vanished many a summer ago.”
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“I feel the madness creeping slowly. Loved by many I'm still lonely.”
Ronnie Radke (1983) American singer
In the song "The Westerner"
“In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
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Alejandro Fernández (1971) Mexican singer
Interview with Myrka de Llanos
Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
29 December 1943
The Diary of a Young Girl (1942 - 1944)
Variant: You can be lonely even when you're loved by many people, since you're still not anybody's "one and only".
Source: Cliffs Notes on Frank's The Diary of Anne Frank
Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
Letters and Papers from Prison (1967; 1997), The Friend