"When everyone leaves you it's loneliness you feel, when you leave everyone else it's solitude."

"Alfred Polgar"

"Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis."

"William Arthur Ward"

"If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company."

"Jean-Paul Sartre"

"Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the spaces between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."

"Maya Angelou"

"To transform the emptiness of loneliness, to the fullness of aloneness. Ah, that is the secret of life."

"Sunita Khosla"

"Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for."

"Dag Hammarskjold"

"People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in..."

"Margaret Cho"

"Loneliness the clearest of crystal insight into your own soul, it's the fear of one's own self that haunts the lonely."

"Keith Haynie"

"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate."

"Germaine Greer"