“Loneliness feels like prison.”

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

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

“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.”

“I knew this feeling, the 2 a. m. loneliness that I'd practically invented.”

“The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.”

“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at 4 o'clock in the morning.”

“It was a weird kind of loneliness, feeling that some of my closest friends didn’t actually know I existed.”

“In Japan, even when you’re alone, you’re never really that lonely. But the loneliness you feel among people with differently colored skin and eyes, whose language you don’t even speak very well – that sort of loneliness is something you feel down to the marrow of your bones.”

“If you don't need it, then
it is useless to be compassionate.
If it's important then
it will probably be followed with pain.
Loneliness that you feel with someone is worse
than one you feel
alone.”