loneliness Quotes

It is necessary to fall in love... if only to provide an alibi for all the random despair you are going to feel anyway.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself.

As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means.

Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.

I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

He who hath many friends hath none.

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.