Eric Scot

“I ain't got no people. I seen the guys that go around on the ranches alone. That ain't no good. They don't have no fun. After a long time they get mean. They get wantin' to fight all the time. . . 'Course Lennie's a God damn nuisance most of the time, but you get used to goin' around with a guy an' you can't get rid of him.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men

“What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.”
― Dag Hammarskjöld

“What is the difference in being alone with another and being alone by one's self?”
― Henrik Ibsen

“He would say her name over and over until it devolved into meaningless sounds - mah REI kuh, mah REI kuh - it became an entry in a dictionary of loneliness.”
― Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry