"I wish to weep, but sorrow is stupid. I wish to believe, but belief is a graveyard." (Charles Bukowski)

"You shall love your crooked neighbour/ with your crooked heart." (W.H. Auden)

"I suffer from my own multiplicity." (Margaret Atwood)

"I was born lost, and take no pleasure in being found." (John Steinbeck)

"At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others—" (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"To fear death, gentleman, is no other than to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know." (Socrates)

"Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. Solitude is the ally of sorrow as well as a companion of spiritual exaltation." (Khalil Gibran)

"Where we went wrong was getting on a boat." (Tom Stoppard)

"A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world." (Jack Kerouac)

"Et ne m’en veux pas si je te tutoie/ Je dis tu a tous ceux que j’aime." (Jacques Prevert)

"Par la porte ouverte entrait une odeur de nuit et de fleurs." (Albert Camus)

"It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing every time you crossed a road." (J.D. Salinger)

"He travels fastest who travels alone." (Rudyard Kipling)

"Don’t ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." (J.D. Salinger)

"Par exemple, quand j'ai vu tout de Paris dans un gratte-ciel, je voulais dire à quelq'un, 'c'est beau, n'est pas?'" (Paris, je t'aime)

"Wer geboren werden will, muß eine Welt zerstören." (Hermann Hesse)

"As I have not worried to be born, I do not worry to die." (Federico García Lorca)

"And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep." (Robert Frost)

"Les hommes ? Il en existe, je crois, six ou sept. Je les ai aperçus il y a des années. Mais on ne sait jamais où les trouver. Le vent les promène. Ils manquent de racines, ça les gêne beaucoup." (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)

"Comme si cette grande colère m'avait purgé du mal, vidé d'éspoir, devant cette nuit chargée de signes et d'étoiles, je m'ouvrais pour la première fois à la tendre indifférence du monde." (Albert Camus)

"The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself." (Mark Twain)

"Homesickness is just a state of mind for me. I’m always missing someone or someplace or something, I’m always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. My life has been one long longing." (Elizabeth Wurtzel)