“I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“And I have only myself. The way it had always been and probably always would be.”— Tess Gerritsen, amazon.com
“The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.”— Carson McCullers, amazon.com
“I know I’m still young and there’s a lot of time for things to happen, but sometimes I think there is something about me that’s wrong, that I’m not the kind of person anyone can fall in love with, and that I’ll always just be alone.”— Lynne Rae Perkins, amazon.com
“You can’t trust other people. If it’s important, you have to do it yourself.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“He loved her. He loved her, and until he’d loved her…she had never minded being alone.”— Truman Capote, amazon.com
“The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.”— Carson McCullers, amazon.com
“I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it’s my head I’m locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.”— Alex Garland, amazon.com
“Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, for she considered love a serious disability.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“Your heart will become a dusty piano in the basement of a church and she will play you when no one is looking. Now you understand why it’s called an organ.”— Rudy Francisco, fuckyeahrudyfrancisco.tumblr.com
“I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. It didn’t make for an interesting person. I didn’t want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com