Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.
William Styron

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
Anna Neagle

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
John Huston

The dominant feeling of the battlefield is loneliness.
William J. Slim

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.
Edward Gibbon

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.
Henry A. Kissinger

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.
Norman Cousins

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.
Alice Walker

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.
David Foster Wallace

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.
Ajay Naidu

The loneliness you get by the sea is personal and alive. It doesn't subdue you and make you feel abject. It's stimulating loneliness.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh

The most terrible poverty is loneliness and the feeling of being unloved.
Mother Teresa

The only place I've felt was really my home is my cabin up north. There's something in the water there that connects me to that place. There's also this sense of isolation and loneliness about it that I've never been able to shake.
Jessica Lange

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.
Ashley Montagu

The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.
Henryk Sienkiewicz

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Tom Wolfe

The surest sign of age is loneliness.
Annie Dillard

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.
Tom Wolfe

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.
Ajay Naidu

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.
Eric Hoffer