“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”

“That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all”

“The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.”

“Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.”

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

“I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.”

“There’s too much beauty upon this earth
For lonely men to bear.”

“I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.”

“One should never direct people towards happiness, because happiness too is an idol of the market-place. One should direct them towards mutual affection. A beast gnawing at its prey can be happy too, but only human beings can feel affection for each other, and this is the highest achievement they can aspire to.”

“I thought of how people are like planets—lonely little forts of mind with immense black distance barring them off from each other.”