“People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.”

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”

Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist

“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.”

Dean Koontz book Forever Odd

“Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone… the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks”

Dan Brown book Inferno

“Men build all kinds of worlds in order to defeat fear and loneliness.”

Jack Cady book The Night We Buried Road Dog

“Even loneliness is not absolute loneliness because the contents of the universe are in him.”

Paul Tillich book The Courage to Be

“Novelty is a new kind of loneliness.”

Wendell Berry (1934) author

“One can experience loneliness in two ways: by feeling lonely in the world or by feeling the loneliness of the world.”

Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist

“The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.”

Mary Balogh (1944) Welsh-Canadian novelist

“I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work.”

Orhan Pamuk (1952) Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literature recipient