“He was proud, like all lonely men. Lonely men must be proud or die.”

“To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.”

“Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.”

“In a sense that is a part of the training: surgeons are lonely men.”

“What is it about men that make women so lonely?”

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

“3968. Proud Men can't bear with Pride in others.”

“Men pass in front of our eyes like butterflies, creatures of a brief season. We love them; they are brave, proud, beautiful, clever; and they die almost at once. They die so soon that our hearts are continually wracked with pain.”

“I like women, not men! And if I liked men, I’d be proud of it and have a lot of em. But I ain’t never been in bed with no man. I’ve been in bed with probably 300 women.”

“But after the intimacy-inducing rituals of puberty, boys who would be men are told we must go it alone, we must achieve our heroism as the Lone Ranger, we must see the other men as threats to our masculine mastery, as objects of competition.”