There is a loneliness in this world so great
that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock.
-Charles Bukowski
At the innermost core of all loneliness
is a deep and powerful yearning
for union with one's lost self.
-Brendan Francis
He never is alone
that is accompanied with noble thoughts.
-John Fletcher
The best cure for loneliness is solitude.
-Marianne Moore
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
Loneliness is poverty of self;
solitude is richness of self.
-May Sarton
