“When somebody else comes along and makes you feel like something special — it’s like catnip. You want more of it. You want to say: ‘Let’s get lunch sometime.’ But in the end, you are what you are no matter how somebody makes you feel. It’s just a feeling.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”— Bell Hooks, amazon.com
“I had two longings and one was fighting the other. I wanted to be loved and I wanted to be always alone.”— Jean Rhys, amazon.com
“All of us want to realize ourselves as distinct persons, but we also want others — lots of others — to know that we are our own distinct selves. We do not want to be unique all alone.”— , amazon.com
“The biggest challenge of being in a relationship is relearning to be comfortable. I am in my element only when I am miserable.”— Sade Andria Zabala, facebook.com
“It’s no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You’ve got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled…”— D.H. Lawrence, amazon.com
“I am a broken bell jar. I am Plath preheating the oven. I am all the things I once feared. Mostly, I am nothing.”— Anonymous, speaking-secrets.tumblr.com
“I'm afraid that something will reveal itself once we’ve exchanged our vows, and suddenly my life will be worse than when I was alone.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“As a recluse I couldn’t bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I never felt right being alone; sometimes it felt good but it never felt right.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“I’m going to find a way to be happy, and I’d really love to be happy with you, but if I can’t be happy with you, then I’ll find a way to be happy without you.”— Randy Pausch, goodreads.com
“I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.”— Carl Jung, amazon.com
“We are all so afraid. We are all so alone. We all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.”— David Shields, amazon.com