“There is no doubt that solitude is a challenge and to maintain balance within it a precarious business. But I must not forget that, for me, being with people or even with one beloved person for any length of time without solitude is even worse. I lose my center. I feel dispersed, scattered, in piece…”— May Sarton, amazon.com
“I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.”— Nicholas Sparks, amazon.com
“Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“If you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.”— Richard Yates, amazon.com
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven't the answer to a question you've been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full of people when someon…”— Norton Juster, amazon.com
“'I feel too much. That's what's going on.' 'Do you think one can feel too much? Or just feel in the wrong ways?' 'My insides don't match up with my outsides.' 'Do anyone's insides and outsides match up?' 'I don't know. I'm only me.' 'Maybe that's what a person's personality is: the difference betwee…”— Jonathan Safran Foer, amazon.com
“I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.”— Amy Sedaris, amazon.com
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your…”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com
“I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.”— Joshua Slocum, amazon.com
“The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“The flip side of freedom is this: When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.”— Lauren Oliver, amazon.com
“She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there—like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.”— Katherine Paterson, amazon.com
“I can be surrounded by a sea of people and still feel all alone... Then I think of you.”— Austin Aims, amazon.com