“When you break up with someone, and I’m not talking casual breakups here, it’s hard to take the sudden absence of such an important person in your life. It reminded me of when I’d stopped going to school and the weird uneasy feeling I’d gotten afterward, like I was forgetting to do something. My lif…”— Lish McBride, amazon.com
“He goes to his friend’s wedding… without you. He goes to his Grandma’s birthday party… without you. He goes to work functions… without you. If you are new in this relationship, it might be excusable, but after a few months there is no excuse worthy anymore. He’s using you for something. If he was in…”— Christy Rasmussen, herinterest.com
“From the first time you met him and spent time alone together, you’ve slept together. You’ve never been with him and not been intimate.”— Ryder Ramsey, thetalko.com
“Every now and then she looked around for tangible evidence of his having ever been there. Where were the butterflies? The blueberries? The whistling reed? She could find nothing, for he had left nothing but his stunning absence.”— Toni Morrison, amazon.com
“Sure, it can feel weird to catch a movie by yourself or sit solo at a sushi bar, but many happily attached women know that spending some time by yourself is a surefire way to meet someone great.”— Marina Khidekel, glamour.com
“In the ice of solitude man becomes most inexorably a question to himself, and just because the question pitilessly summons and draws into play his most secret life he becomes an experience to himself.”— Martin Buber, amazon.com
“You don’t want your first kiss to take place in a noisy, messy setting, and you probably don’t want it to be somewhere too brightly lit or conspicuous, either. Consider whether you will be locking lips in front of an audience and ask yourself, ‘Is it appropriate to kiss here?’ A crowded bar or dance…”— Madeleine Holden, askmen.com
“The best time for a first kiss is when you're alone, there's a pause in the conversation and you're both looking into each other's eyes. Help make this moment happen by finding a way to get away from the crowd, standing or sitting close to your partner, making eye contact and letting the conversatio…”— Holly Ashworth, teenadvice.about.com
“I am the kind of empty that comes only when it’s known that I will never be filled again. The kind of empty that, well, there is no kind of empty that even begins to feel how I feel...I am empty. I am empty. I am empty.”— Tyler Knott Gregson, thoughtcatalog.com
“I am the kind of alone that comes when the realization comes that everyone else will step forward and you will not step at all. That they will march happily into the rest of their lives and I am unable to imagine the rest of this breath. The kind of alone that comes as nothing even begins to make se…”— Tyler Knott Gregson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Everyone you lost was still there with you, and so maybe no one was ever lost at all.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“I think it's very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”— Oscar Wilde, cmgww.com
“I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.”— Gayle Forman, amazon.com
“Now that you're an adult, you might still feel a pang of guilt when you decline a dinner invitation in favor of a good book. Or maybe you like to eat alone in restaurants and could do without the pitying looks from fellow diners. Or you're told that you're "in your head too much", a phrase that's of…”— Susan Cain, amazon.com
“being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“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
“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com