I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.
Carson McCullers

I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things. The only thing I hate - and I know you have to be realistic and pay the bills in this life - is the loneliness on the road.
Vin Scully

I think I'd like to be able to heal people's pain, whether it is hunger, loneliness or whatever.
Brandi Chastain

I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.
Janeane Garofalo

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.
Yousuf Karsh

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.
Alice Meynell

If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
Anton Chekhov

If you write fiction, you're by yourself. There are certain advantages to that in that you don't have to explain anything to anybody. But when you get in with others who share the loneliness of the whole enterprise, you're not lonely anymore.
Denis Johnson

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.
Alberto Giacometti

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.
John Steinbeck

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.
Benjamin Britten

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.
Bruce Barton

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

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Ferdinand Marcos

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Woody Allen

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Henry Rollins

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.
Paul Tillich

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
Joss Whedon

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.
Thomas Wolfe