“I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire...”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“I don’t want to be so scared all the time. So alone. I want to believe something can be worth it. Worth the pain. Worth the risk.”— Hannah Harrington, amazon.com
“It doesn’t matter where I am, or how alone--I always have such a crowded head.”— Charles de Lint, amazon.com
“I have a need of silence and of stars. Too much is said too loudly…”— William Alexander Percy, amazon.com
“I finally figured out that I’m solitary by nature, but at the same time I know so many people; so many people think they own a piece of me. They shift and move under my skin, like a parade of memories that simply won’t go away. It doesn’t matter where I am, or how alone—I always have such a crowded…”— Charles de Lint, amazon.com
“As an introvert, you can be your own best friend or your worst enemy. The good news is we generally like our own company, a quality that extroverts often envy. We find comfort in solitude and know how to soothe ourselves. Even our willingness to look at ourselves critically is often helpful. But, we…”— Laurie Helgoe, amazon.com
“We're alone, but we are capable of communicating to one another both our loneliness and our desire to break through it. You say, 'I'm alone.' Someone answers, 'I'm alone too.' There's a shift in the scale of power. A bridge is thrown between the two abysses.”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“And, here I was, left with only myself to deal with. It was entirely up to me.”— James Baldwin, amazon.com
“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”— Diane von Furstenberg, marieclaire.co.za
“The further inside you hide the hurt, the more it hurts inside. All wounds need air to heal.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“They tell you you’ll forget how it used to be. You’ll get used to it, that it’s better to move on. They don’t realize you can’t. You’re not the same person anymore.”— Amanda Sun, amazon.com
“I might have been afraid that if I really loved someone and needed her, one day she might suddenly disappear without a word, and I’d be left all alone.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com