“The only way we will survive is by being kind. The only way we can get by in this world is through the help we receive from others. No one can do it alone, no matter how great the machines are.”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“Suddenly I had a flash of insight: I am a monster, I realized, a monster that wants to stalk through the woods, free and alone, and cannot even bear so much as the touch of a branch on its skin.”— Marlen Haushofer, amazon.com
“So, now I shall talk every night. To myself. To the moon. I shall walk, as I did tonight, jealous of my loneliness, in the blue-silver of the cold moon, shining brilliantly on the drifts of fresh-fallen snow, with the myriad sparkles. I talk to myself and look at the dark trees, blessedly neutral. S…”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.”— Franz Kafka, 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
“Kill the part of you that believes it can't survive without someone else.”— Sade Andria Zabala, amazon.com
“I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give.”— Charlotte Brontë, amazon.com
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”— Anne Frank, amazon.com
“The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.”— Douglas Coupland, brainyquote.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
“there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“If you were alone you would cut yourself in two so that one part would shape the other.”— Elia Canetti, amazon.com
“Oh lord when you are alone and do not want to be, you lie in bed with your own shoulder wrapped around and beneath yourself so that the surges of pain keep you company. This is hurtful but it is so much better than no nerves firing at all. The worst is when there’s no one near to press on you and ma…”— Jenny Holzer, artic.edu