“There's a special quality to the loneliness of dusk, a melancholy more brooding even than the night's.”

“Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.”

“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”

“There is in certain living souls a quality of loneliness unspeakable, so great it must be shared as company is shared by lesser beings. Such a loneliness is mine; so know by this that in immensity there is one lonelier than you.”

“Melancholy were the sounds on a winter's night.”

“Dismal and fearsome to view was this strong place of Carcë, most like to the embodied soul of dreadful night brooding on the waters of that sluggish river: by day a shadow in broad sunshine, the likeness of pitiless violence sitting in the place of power, darkening the desolation of the mournful fen; by night, a blackness more black than night herself.”

“Battles ended with sunset or dusk; so heroes, on special occasions when they needed more time, were vouchsafed victory by the stoppage of the sun in Greek as well as Hebrew saga.”

“Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.”

“Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.”

“Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.”