Quote by Thomas Wolfe

“Have only this consolation--that he was never a fiend or even truly a madman, but only an eager, studious, and curious boy whose love…

— H.P. Lovecraft

“His life would be lonely too until he, too, died, ceased to exist, became a memory - if anyone remembered him.”

— James Joyce

“But the longing within him had grown even greater, the overpowering need to be alone. Locked in an empty room, entirely unwitnessed, silent and…

— Philip K. Dick

“Periodically throughout his life, he would seek comfort in his troubles by lurching into the wilderness, only to find more loneliness there and end…

— Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith ·

“How must he prove himself? What was it they wished to know of him? And what did he know of himself here where loneliness…

— Margaret Craven

“Loneliness came over him, like an avalanche of snow. He was alone. Where he had always wanted to be. You can only trust yourself.…

— William Lindsay Gresham

“He'd read that once in everyone's life there was somebody who touched a spot so deep, so precious, that the mind always retreated, in…

— Anonymous

“... and for the first time he realized the pain inevitable in any human relationship - pain suffered and pain inflicted. How foolish we…

— Anonymous

“He knew today that his life was forever changed in that one moment and he was clueless as to why or how it was.…

— PJ Fiala

“He felt light, lighter than ever in all his years. He had severed all relationships. It occurred to him that he had been alone…

— Joseph Roth

“He spoke of many things, he seemed anxious before the moment of death to say everything he had not said in his life, and…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Isolation, for him, had become a basic sine qua non for existence and loneliness, his sole companion like a perfectly faithful twin. He was…

— Faraaz Kazi