I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

Loneliness is the most terrible form of poverty.

Thousands have lived without love, none without water.

Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

I realize full well how hard it must be to go on living alone in a place from which someone has left you, but there is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

From my novel Seaside Daisies:

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted
is the most terrible poverty

There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.

It was the very discomfort, the blows, the cold, the thirst that kept us aloft in the void of bottomless despair, both during the journey and after. It was not the will to live, nor a conscious resignation; for few are the men capable of such resolution, and we were but a common sample of humanity.

Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water.

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the
room was like sunlight to me.

no courage in the world can hold out in the face of neglect, solitude and persecution.

Believe me, I know what it’s like to feel all alone … the worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp on reality.