After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.

She stood in front of the mirror a long time, and finally decided she either looked like a sap or else she looked very beautiful. One or the other.

I´m a stranger in a strange land.

Doctors, by God; washing their hands, looking out windows, fiddling with dreadful things while you are stretched out on a table or half undressed on a chair.

the way i need you is a loneliness i cannot bear.