To be an adult is to be alone.

Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

—Jean Rostand

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

—Jean Rostand

To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

—Jean Rostand

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

—Epictetus

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

—Dag Hammarskjöld

I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.

—Elizabeth Gilbert in Love

I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.

—Sarah Dessen in The Truth About Forever

He'd mistaken loneliness for independence, and had become so good at closing himself off from the world that it took an e-mail to remind him what it was like to have a real conversation.

—Jennifer E. Smith in This is What Happy Looks Like