When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues.
It's really hard to do this life - to be a human being alone.
For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.
Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.
One night some short weeks ago, for the first time in her not always happy life, Marilyn Monroe's soul sat down alone to a quiet supper from which it did not rise.
I really need to be alone. I can't deal with someone sleeping next to me.
I've lived so deep under masks, my interior was built to satisfy me alone - I have lived almost 60 years alone, mentally, and quite content to have it so.
Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.
When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.
Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.
Everyone has their moments of solitude, difficulties, and vulnerability.
I was alone more than most kids.
People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.
Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.
It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.
Solitude, though it may be silent as light, is like light, the mightiest of agencies; for solitude is essential to man. All men come into this world alone and leave it alone.
All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.
When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.
What good is sitting all alone in your room?
Being alone is very difficult.
I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.
The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.
How do people who live utterly alone survive? There are so many things that won't open. I've got a few dresses in New York, and I can somehow get them on, but I can't get them off.
If you travel too often, you actually come face-to-face with what you're trying to escape. I feel like when I travel alone, sometimes it's like being locked in a hotel room with my own worst enemy.
If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.
The soul that sees beauty may sometimes walk alone.
Elizabeth Berg is an American novelist.
