Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.

Take everything easy and quit dreaming and brooding and you will be well guarded from a thousand evils.

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.

Happiness, to some, elation; Is, to others, mere stagnation.

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.

Time! Joyless emblem of the greed of millions, robber of the best which earth can give.

For books are more than books, they are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives.

Let us be of cheer, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

A man must be sacrificed now and again to provide for the next generation of men.

Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.

Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.

Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls.

You are ice and fire the touch of you burns my hands like snow.

Let us be of cheer remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

When I go away from you the world beats dead like a slackened drum.

When I go away from you The world beats dead Like a slackened drum....

Rapture's self is three parts sorrow.

When you came, you were like red wine and honey, and the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.

The gift of loneliness is sometimes a radical vision of society or one's people that has not previously been taken into account.

The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

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

I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.

The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

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

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

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.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

Yet it is in this loneliness that the deepest activities begin. It is here that you discover act without motion, labor that is profound repose, vision in obscurity, and, beyond all desire, a fulfillment whose limits extend to infinity.

An artist is always alone - if he is an artist. No, what the artist needs is loneliness.

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

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

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage.

Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.

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

Loneliness is the most terrible poverty.