孤独
"The purpose of fiction is to combat loneliness."
The best books are those that make you feel less alone.
The writer’s life is a life of solitude.
I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape—the loneliness of it, the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it, the whole story doesn’t show.
La solitude est bonne aux grandes âmes et aux méchants.
Who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once.
A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way.
The life of a writer is absolutely solitary. He has to be alone to do his work.
The deepest need of man is the need to overcome his separateness, to leave the prison of his aloneness.
In the depth of solitude, I found the presence of all.
Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.