Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.
Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.
I started putting down my thoughts on paper out of loneliness while I was studying in America. I was very close to my grandfather, and when he died, I couldn't visit home. I started scribbling those thoughts.
I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
There's an incredible amount of loneliness that comes with child stardom because you're isolated from your society.
To Tennessee Williams we owe a special debt. In a tragic age, he has transformed loneliness by naming it for us, suffered sordidness with beauty, graced poor hurt lives with love and pity.
