I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone. – Lord Byron
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty. – Mason Cooley
The desire to get married, which – I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women – is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge – which is to be single again. – Nora Ephron
Who knows what true loneliness is – not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion. – Joseph Conrad
Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame. – Mason Cooley
As a body everyone is single, as a soul never. – Hermann Hesse
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all. – Doug Coupland
Always give a word or sign of salute when meeting or passing a friend, or even a stranger, if in a lonely place. – Tecumseh
Even in the presence of others he was completely alone. – Robert M. Pirsig
Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss. – Guru Nanak
I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely. – Tori Amos
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. – Martin Heidegger
I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best. – Frida Kahlo
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. – Mortimer Adler
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven. – Boethius
He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything. – Baltasar Gracian
Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone. – Octavio Paz
Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind. – Martha Beck
Is he alone who has courage on his right hand and faith on his left hand? – Charles Lindbergh
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up. – Pearl S. Buck
