"The eternal quest of the human being is to shatter his loneliness." - Norman Cousins
"The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself." - Michel de Montaigne
"Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better." - Henry Rollins
"The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved." - Mother Teresa
"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." - Mother Teresa
"Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow." - Janet Fitch
"We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding." - Rudyard Kipling
"The loneliest moment in someone's life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly." - F. Scott Fitzgerald
"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