50 Painfully Honest Quotes About The Reality Of Loneliness

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com

“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them...The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this…”

— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com

“I think it all comes down to feeling lonely and unloved.”

— Anja Nillsson, anjavisst.wordpress.com

“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.”

— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com

“It pains me sometimes but it also heals me. It floods my eyes with tears but it also brings out my depth, my talents, my kindness and my strength. It makes me weak until it makes me strong, it almost kills me before it brings me back to life.”

— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com

“But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.”

— Dennis Lehane, amazon.com

“His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him.”

— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com

“I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.”

— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com

“Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.”

— Jeffrey Eugenides, amazon.com

“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

“I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.”

— D.D. Barant, amazon.com

“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”

— Jennifer Niven, amazon.com

“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary th…”

— J.K. Rowling, books.google.com

“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.”

— Stephen Fry, amazon.com

“You don't understand," Alecto replied vacantly. "It isn't that I want to die... I just don't want to exist.”

— Rebecca McNutt, amazon.com

“This pain is comfort. It is the solace of physicality, like a touch.”

— Johnny Rich, amazon.com

“Love can be a form of self-harm. Craving affection can devastate.”

— Mohamed Ghazi, amazon.com

“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”

— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com

“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”

— Laurell K. Hamilton, amazon.com

“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”

— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com