“Beloved, I think of you always! Your sweet-smelling curls wake up my lonesome soul.”— Hafiz of Persia, mystery-school.net
“I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don’t wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed. I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I’m alone in the world and I’m just sort of abandoned. I’m not fun to be with.”— Jamaica Kincaid, content.time.com
“The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.”— Carson McCullers, amazon.com
“I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, and accrue what I hear into myself.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com