I sought my father in the world of the black musician because it contained wisdom experience sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years I was interested in the music of men.

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

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

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

It is cruel you know that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of strength and freedom. The beauty of disappointment and never-satisfied love. The cruel beauty of nature and everlasting beauty of monotony.

Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that for me is based on insecurity self-esteem and loneliness.

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.

It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

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

While the resurrection promises us a new and perfect life in the future God loves us too much to leave us alone to contend with the pain guilt and loneliness of our present life.

As far as loneliness I feel Los Angeles and its layout having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.

When I decided to be a singer my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life.

Loneliness expresses the pain of being alone and solitude expresses the glory of being alone.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It 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.

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.

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

Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

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.

The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science more than soil has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.