"I am nobody! Who are you? Are you nobody too?"

"I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody."

"I celebrate myself, and sing myself, and what I assume you shall assume, for every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you."

"A slumber did my spirit seal; I had no human fears: She seemed a thing that could not feel the touch of earthly years."

"This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a whimper."

"Out of the night that covers me, black as the pit from pole to pole."

"A man said to the universe: 'Sir, I exist!' 'However,' replied the universe, 'The fact has not created in me a sense of obligation.'"

"This is a dark house, very big. I made it myself, Cell by cell from a quiet corner."

"My sorrow, when she's here with me, thinks these dark days of autumn rain are beautiful as days can be."

"A world of loneliness. You are not to blame. Life’s trials broke my heart. I should have tried to fight."

"I was a stranger in the city. Out of town were the people I knew. I had that feeling of self-pity. What to do? What to do? What to do?"

"The lonely earth amid the balls that hurry through the eternal halls, a makeweight flying to the void, Supplemental asteroid."

"The solitude. The loneliness. One lone tree. If it had been possible, I would have disappeared into that tree."

"What makes it even lonelier is knowing you belong somewhere else, and knowing you can’t get there."

"The art of losing isn't hard to master; so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster."

"To be left alone, without a friend, without a God; or at least without a life, and to not be able to die!"

"A lonely impulse of delight drove to this tumult in the clouds."

"No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change."

"And I would it were; so he were rid of me and quiet rest."

"Alone, alone, all, all alone, alone on a wide wide sea!"