I've got everything I need except a man. And I'm not one of those women who thinks a man is the answer to everything, but I'm tired of being alone.
Dag Hammarskjold
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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
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Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Francis Bacon
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We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.
Orson Welles
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Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Henry Rollins
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Language... has created the word "loneliness" to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word "solitude" to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
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Language has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone, and the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich
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The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.
Thomas Wolfe
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People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.
Anton Checkov
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Separate we come, and separate we go, And this be it known, is all that we know.
Conrad Aiken
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