“Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.”— C. G. Jung, amazon.com
“What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours—that is what you must be able to attain.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Forget everything. Open the windows. Clear the room. The wind blows through it. You see only its emptiness, you search in every corner and don’t find yourself.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“It’s tough to get out of bed; I know that myself. You can lie there for an hour and a half without thinking anything, just worrying about what the day holds and knowing that you won’t be able to deal with it.”— Ned Vizzini, 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
“We do not need to reveal ourselves to others, but only to those we love. For then we are no longer revealing ourselves in order to seem but in order to give. There is much more strength in a man who reveals himself only when it is necessary. I have suffered from being alone, but because I have been…”— Albert Camus, amazon.com
“I am more sensitive than other people. Things that other people would not notice awaken a distinct echo in me, and in such moments of lucidity, when I look at myself, I see that I am alone, all alone, all alone.”— Henri Barbusse, amazon.com
“I enjoy controlled loneliness. I like wandering around the city alone. I’m not afraid of coming back to an empty flat and lying down in an empty bed. I’m afraid of having no one to miss, of having no one to love.”— Kuba Wojewódzki, goodreads.com
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.”— Lois Lowry, amazon.com
“When he was in school he longed to be out, and when he was out he longed to be in. On the way he thought about coming home, and coming home he thought about going. Wherever he was he wished he were somewhere else, and when he got there he wondered why he’d even bothered.”— Norton Juster, amazon.com
“I think I will do nothing for a long time but listen, and accrue what I hear into myself.”— Walt Whitman, amazon.com
“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“I don’t suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don’t trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It’s a sure sign that they don’t really know anyone.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com