“I have always loved everything about you. Even what I didn’t understand. And I have always known that, at heart, I would have you no different. But most people don’t know how to love. Nothing is enough for them. They must have their dreams. It’s the only thing they do well. Dreaming. They dream up o…”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“Dreaming that you're beside me I picture the prettiest stories Only to wake up All by myself.”— Ella Fitzgerald, open.spotify.com
“Do you know how it hurts to touch you knowing that in the morning I’ll still wake up alone?”— Shinji Moon, amazon.com
“Nobody can help you. That’s what love’s all about… You’re the one having these wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark. Your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“What is this world? what asketh men to have? Now with his love, now in his colde grave Allone, withouten any compaignye.”— Geoffrey Chaucer, amazon.com
“I’m tired of living unable to love anyone. I don’t have a single friend - not one. And, worst of all, I can’t even love myself. Why is that? Why can’t I love myself? It’s because I can’t love anyone else. A person learns how to love himself through the simple acts of loving and being loved by someon…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“Dar’st thou amid the varied multitude To live alone, an isolated thing?”— Percy Bysshe Shelley, en.wikiquote.org
“It’s okay to cancel plans and turn things down. It’s okay to be selfish and spend the night by yourself.”— Christie Lynn, thoughtcatalog.com
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven’s name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.”— Jean-Paul Sartre, amazon.com
“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“You will fall in love with train rides, and sooner or later you will realize that nowhere seems like home anymore.”— Shinji Moon, amazon.com
“Even when I am alone, I have real good company - dreams and imaginations and pretendings.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“So all were gone at last, one by one, each swept out into the mighty flood tide of the city's life, there to prove, to test, to find, to lose himself, as each man must--alone.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com