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- Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
- Dag Hammarskjold (1905 - 1961)
- When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
- Epictetus (55 AD - 135 AD), Discourses
- To be an adult is to be alone.
- Jean Rostand (1894 - 1977), Thoughts of a biologist (1939)
- 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, weblog, 10-30-03
- The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.
- Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
- Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
- Pearl Buck (1892 - 1973)
- They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554 - 1586)
- To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.
- Suzanne Gordon, Lonely in America, 1976
- No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone.
- Wendy Wasserstein (1950 - 2005), Isn't It Romantic, 1983
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