“To know you will be lonely is not the same as being lonely.”

“Being free always involves being lonely.”

“For it must be very lonely being dead.”

“Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.”

“When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.”

“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.”

“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”

“He told us that a lone avout was being pursued by a mob. We saw it as an emergence.”

“… the beast made the noise of a cat being shampooed, a lonely wail of horror and outrage, of shame and defeat.”

“I think people have to hit rock bottom to really know their faculties because they have to use those faculties to get out of that rock bottom. I really had to feel profoundly lonely to get myself out of the feeling of being profoundly lonely. But it was always there, that feeling of loneliness and existing with the absence of something that had been stripped from me.”