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1->Even when I was in a crowd,\
2I was always alone.
3-->--'''Creator/ErnestHemingway'''
4
5->'''Sheridan''': I never forget the feeling of helplessness. I never thought there could be anything worse than being all alone in the night.\
6'''Delenn''': But there is. Being all alone in a crowd.
7-->--''Series/BabylonFive'', "There All the Honor Lies"
8
9->Sometimes it's a relief to get lost in the sea of faces...other times, it feels like I'm drowning.
10-->--Iris Kolrick, Webcomic/{{Shadownova}}
11
12->For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
13-->--Francis Bacon
14
15->'''Pvt. Robert Witt:''' Do you ever feel lonely?\
16'''Sgt. Edward Welsh:''' Only around people.
17-->--''Film/TheThinRedLine''
18
19->I have not loved the world, nor the world me;\
20I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd\
21To its idolatries a patient knee, --\
22Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, -- nor cried aloud\
23In worship of an echo; in the crowd\
24They could not deem me one of such; I stood\
25Among them, but not of them; in a shroud\
26Of thoughts which were not their thoughts, and still could,\
27Had I not filed my mind, which thus itself subdued.
28-->--Lord Byron, "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage", Canto III, Stanza CXIII
29
30->''How can I feel abandoned, even when the world surrounds me?''\
31''How can I bite the hand that feeds the strangers all around me?''\
32''How can I feel so lonely''\
33''Never really knowing anyone?''
34-->--'''Music/DreamTheater''', "Misunderstood"
35
36->''Facing twenty thousand of your friends''\
37''How can anyone be so lonely?''
38-->-- '''Music/{{ABBA}}''', "Super Trouper"
39
40->'''Freya:''' Do you know what it is to be alone among many and unable to speak your fears?
41->'''EMH:''' I think I do.
42->'''Freya:''' How do you survive?
43->'''EMH:''' [[CharacterDevelopment I'm still learning how.]]
44-->-- ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', "Heroes and Demons"
45
46->"Where are the men?" the little prince at last took up the conversation again. "It is a little lonely in the desert ..."\
47"It is also lonely among men," the snake said.
48-->-- ''Literature/TheLittlePrince''
49
50->''People say I'm the life of the party''\
51''Cause I tell a joke or two''\
52''Although I might be laughing loud and hearty''\
53''Deep inside I'm blue''\
54\
55''So take a good look at my face''\
56''You'll see my smile looks out of place''\
57''If you look closer it's easy to trace''\
58''The tracks of my tears''
59-->--'''Smokey Robinson and the Miracles''', "The Tracks of My Tears"
60
61->In loneliness, the lonely one eats himself; in a crowd, the many eat him. Now choose.
62-->--Creator/FriedrichNietzsche

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