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Our uniqueness makes us special, makes perception valuable - but it can also make us lonely. This loneliness is different from being 'alone': You can be lonely even surrounded by people. The feeling I'm talking about stems from the sense that we can never fully share the truth of who we are. I experienced this acutely at an early age.

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

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

At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.

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.

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

Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

Loneliness and rootlessness are just symptoms of an insecurity that assails us all when hitting this midlife moment. The world appears intent on blanking you out.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.