“I waste at least an hour every day lying in bed. Then I waste time pacing. I waste time thinking. I waste time being quiet and not saying anything because I’m afraid I’ll stutter.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com
“Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world because even your own shadow leaves you when you are in darkness.”— Ibn Taymiyyah, goodreads.com
“The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.”— Carson McCullers, amazon.com
“I do all this alone, everything I achieve, I achieve alone, because it’s my head I’m locked into, and I share this space with nobody but myself.”— Alex Garland, amazon.com
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up.”— Louise Erdrich, amazon.com
“I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”— Daphne du Maurier, amazon.com
“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com
“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”— Warsan Shire, goodreads.com
“I like my life alone. I mean, I love being with friends, and I love kissing and loving someone to pieces. But it’s hard to find someone who doesn’t ultimately start judging you and your choices.”— Sarah Silverman, m.imdb.com
“I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it’s a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”— Kazuo Ishiguro, 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