1. Loneliness is the companion of sorrow and the close friend of spiritual activities.

——Gibran (Lebanon)

2. Loneliness is not in the mountains but in the streets, not in one person but among many people.

——Miki Kiyoshi (Japan)

3. People who are lonely and have noble thoughts will never be lonely.

——Philippe Sidney (UK)

4. Loneliness is the fate of human beings. Love and friendship cannot eradicate it, but they can soothe it.

——Zhou Guoping (China)

5. People who do not get friendship will be miserable lonely people for life. A society without friendship is just a prosperous desert.

——Bacon (UK)

6. Loneliness can make people capable or clumsy.

——Hugo (France)

7. If you are alone in the world, completely alone, use this loneliness as your comfort and your strength.

——Howard Fast (USA)

8. Wisdom will not feel lonely, because it can be combined with even the most alien things.

——Russell (UK)