“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com
“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them… awakenin…”— Mark Helprin, amazon.com
“I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“The problem with being the rock is no one asks if you’re starting to crumble.”— Ellen Hopkins, tumblr.com
“Do you realize how important it is to be independent? To be able to take care of yourself? To not rely on someone else for your most basic needs? And to not get so damn attached to stuff that you’d rather demean yourself than live without it.”— Alyson Noël, amazon.com
“The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Why do people need other people so much? Why can’t we just do our work and go home? Why do we have to talk and touch and dream together?”— R.A. Nelson, amazon.com
“I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a [person] that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.”— Walker Percy, amazon.com
“My emotions overload because there is no hand to hold, there’s no shoulder here to lean on, I’m walking all on my own.”— Christina Aguilera, amazon.com
“I have, as it were, my own sun and moon and stars, and a little world all to myself.”— Henry David Thoreau, amazon.com
“You must learn one thing. The world was made to be free in. Give up all the other worlds except the one to which you belong. Sometimes it takes darkness and the sweet confinement of your aloneness to learn anything or anyone that does not bring you alive is too small for you.”— David Whyte, amazon.com
“Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it’s a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, amazon.com
“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com