I've grown used to being lonely over the years, so I don't seek to change it. But aren't there many people who are lonely?

Being alone doesn't necessarily mean that you're lonely.

Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.

I feel lonely at times, but I don't want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I'm not the type of person who just does things to do them.

Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

Manliness consists not in bluff, bravado or loneliness. It consists in daring to do the right thing and facing consequences whether it is in matters social, political or other. It consists in deeds not words.

"When I wrote 'Dear Fatty,' I realised that sitting and writing alone is an absolute joy."

"There is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock"

"Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone."

"Oh, Creator! Can monsters exist in the sight of him who alone knows how they were invented, how they invented themselves, and how they might not have invented themselves?"

"I always try to keep that feeling of being on the edge. I'm afraid of knowing too well and seeming mechanical."

"The loneliness in him was so keen that he was filled with terror. Usually he had a pint of bootleg white lightning. He drank the raw liquor and by daylight he was warm and relaxed."

"She did not know why she was sad, but because of this peculiar sadness, she began to realize she ought to leave the town."

"It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew."

"He nearly always put his hand on his friend's arm and looked for a second into his face before leaving him."

"My advice to you is this. Do not attempt to stand alone. ...The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone."

"I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands."

"I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely."

"The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome."

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.

“Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you.”

“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone. Make good use of it.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty