“They call us lonely when we're really just alone.”

“Just the two of us. We're in it together. The pleasure will be ours alone. For the rest of our lives.”

“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”

“The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?”

“SOLIDAO, LONELINESS.What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it? ... it isn't only that others are there, that they fill up the space next to us. But even when they celebrate us or give advice in a friendly conversation, clever, sensitive advice: even then we can be lonely. So loneliness is not something simply connected with the presence of others or with what they do. Then what? What on earth?”

“I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were”