I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.

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

I don't believe in cutting out people from the past. It doesn't give strength; it just gives loneliness.

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.

There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you move away from where you started.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness.

I think 'Speech & Debate' surprised people because it's a play about teenagers that took the teenagers very seriously. They are very real. People wanted to see if they identified with one of the kids, that loneliness, that yearning for something bigger. That feeling of being stuck, it's very adolescent, but those kinds of feelings linger on.

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

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

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

Fame always brings loneliness. Success is as ice cold and lonely as the North Pole.

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.

The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.

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

I am an expert in loneliness and have wandered around a great deal.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

I'm interested in telling a story about a gay man and what he's going through as an artist and as a lonely, single gay man. I want to reveal what I know about loneliness.