“Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.”

“The loneliness does not come from the War. The War did not make it. It was the loneliness that made the War.”

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is richness of self.”

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”

“Self-hatred is worse than loneliness.”

“Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion.”

“Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.”

“Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.”

“As seen in my loneliness, there was this difference between the Bible and the newspapers. The one reminded one that, apart from God, my life was but a bubble of air, and it bade me remember my Creator; the other fostered arrogance and loneliness.”

“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”