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

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

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.

Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say.

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

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.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

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