Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same.

—Pearl Buck

Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.

—Pearl Buck

We were happily married for eight months. Unfortunately, we were married for four and a half years.

—Pearl Buck

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

—Pearl Buck

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

—Pearl Buck

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

—Mark Twain

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

—Margaret Cho

To be an adult is to be alone.

—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