“I shall be unhappy without loneliness.”

“A book,
a book full
of human touches,
of shirts,
a book
without loneliness, with men
and tools,
a book
is victory.”

“I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.”

“Human beings can withstand a week without water, two weeks without food, many years of homelessness, but not loneliness. It is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”

“I hate loneliness, but it loves me.”

“I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.”

“Birth is the start of loneliness and loneliness the start of poetry…”

“the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.”

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

“There is no loneliness like the loneliness of crowds, especially to those who are unaccustomed to them.”