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

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

Masashi Kishimoto (1974) Japanese manga artist

“Depression on my left, Loneliness on my right. They don't need to show me thier badges. I know these guys very well.”

Elizabeth Gilbert (1969) American writer

“I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.”

Henry Rollins (1961) American singer-songwriter

“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.”

Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress

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

Carson McCullers book The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“I make the most outrageous demands on my imagination and leave aside everything else, theory and nature study, as other people understand them. This is the only way I can work, drawing on nothing but my own faculty of imagination with I feed without stint – except in working hours.”

Franz Marc (1880–1916) German painter

“My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.”

Tom Waits (1949) American singer-songwriter and actor

“What makes loneliness an anguish
Is not that I have no one to share my burden,
But this:
I have only my own burden to bear.”

Dag Hammarskjöld (1905–1961) Swedish diplomat, economist, and author

“We do not need to grieve for the dead. Why should we grieve for them? They are now in a place where there is no more shadow, darkness, loneliness, isolation, or pain. They are home.”

John O'Donohue (1956–2008) Irish writer, priest and philosopher