“Stop waiting for something or someone to come and make you happy. Meditate daily. Breathe. Come on. You’re okay. You have friends. Love them. Respect them. Go out and play. Learn to be alone.”— Jenifer Lewis, amazon.com
“Inner space is the one place on Earth that’s actually your own. It’s where we can have an infinite quantity of something (nothingness) that won’t hurt us. It’s where we get to be truly free.”— Melissa Broder, vice.com
“Flee humanity. Get yourself to the nearest woods, desert, pond, river, lake, or field where there are very few people. If you live in a city and transportation out of the city is impossible, find an abandoned stairwell. Just sit there. Take in the glory of silence, of emptiness, the way there is no…”— Melissa Broder, vice.com
“you can go to shows alone! you can go alone talk to no one feel the music then go home. abolish the notion of going to shows to be seen.”— mitski, twitter.com
“Why is it so hard to find someone to get close with?”— Stephen Falk, Lindsay Jillian, Kether Donohue, imdb.com
“I sometimes wear headphones even though I’m not listening to anything just so I’m left alone. It’s the next best thing to wearing a ‘Do Not Disturb’ sign.”— Karl Pilkington, amazon.com
“Don’t settle, even if you remain alone for a lifetime. You deserve someone who will appreciate you for both your beauty and your bruises.’”— A.R. Lucas, thoughtcatalog.com
“If we all feel alone, how alone are we? If we all feel worthless then who is the currency of our worth being measured against?”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“Let 2018 be the year where you can sip coffee by yourself and not feel lonely. Let it be the year where you don’t need anyone’s company but your own. Let 2018 be the year you fill your heart up with good thoughts, with brilliant thoughts about yourself and about your future.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“I fear being alone more than anything else. So why do I do this? Why do I push away the people I love? What is so very wrong with me?”— Victoria Aveyard, amazon.com
“Sometimes people leave you Halfway through the wood Others may decieve you You decide what's good You decide alone But no one is alone.”— Stephen Sondheim, imdb.com
“The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company.”— John Green, amazon.com
“You’ll be okay on your own. I believe in you. You don’t need to find love to feel good about yourself.”— Nicole Tarkoff, thoughtcatalog.com