"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone." - Octavio Paz
"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty." - Mother Teresa
"What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?" - T.S. Eliot
"People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about." - Anton Checkov
"Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word, but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion." - Conrad Joseph
"Memories are the treasures that we keep locked deep within the storehouse of our souls, to keep our hearts warm when we are lonely." - Becky Aligada
"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." - Orson Welles
"One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it." - Vincent Van Gogh
"Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love." -Francis Bacon
“When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.” - Ronald Anthony
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone." - Tennessee Williams
"The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness." - Norman Cousins
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