“You don’t need to worry about me, I want to whisper. I have created something from nothing here. I have willed a way of life into being. I have found kinship networks in France that nourish me.”— Catherine Down, nytimes.com
“There’s not a single person on this planet who can navigate everything by themselves. We’re in this life together, tethered to each other, fumbling and trying to find our way—and we all need help sometimes. We aren’t meant to go at it alone. And you aren’t meant to struggle in silence.”— Daniell Koepke, shopcatalog.com
“You know the lonely in a room of people trope? Well, it's a cliché for a reason, though so many of us still find it hard to accept.”— Gyan Yankovich, buzzfeed.com
“Learning to be alone is one of the hardest and the best things I’ve ever done for myself.”— Meghan Nesmith, manrepeller.com
“To Americans, drinking alone can sound, well, lonely (and, as we’ll get to shortly, problematic), but Finns typically don’t tend to see it that way, in part because they’re quite comfortable with solitude.”— Nicole Spector, nbcnews.com
“Having fun alone this summer means getting to know yourself and the world around you.”— Lee Phillips, rookiemag.com
“Two people, together forever. Security in life! And someone to love ya! Instead of being all alone, such a lonely existence. I'd kill myself!”— Dan Fybel, Rich Rinaldi, Linda Belcher, John Roberts, imdb.com
“In our hyper-connected world, a world in which we can communicate constantly and instantly over the internet, we rarely remember to carve out spaces for solitary contemplation.”— Jennifer Stitt, aeon.co
“If we lose our capacity for solitude, our ability to be alone with ourselves, then we lose our very ability to think.”— Jennifer Stitt, aeon.co
“It is better to be alone than to be with someone who can’t see who you are.”— E. Lockhart, amazon.com
“It is better to be alone than to be with someone who can’t see who you are.”— E. Lockhart, amazon.com
“It is better to be alone than to be with someone who can’t see who you are.”— E. Lockhart, amazon.com
“And if you couldn’t be loved, the next best thing was to be left alone.”— L. M. Montgomery, amazon.com
“Paradoxically, the ability to be alone is the condition for the ability to love.”— Erich Fromm, amazon.com
“It’s better to have nobody than someone who is half there, or who doesn’t want to be there.”— Angelina Jolie, vanityfair.com
“I mean, I don't really deal with break-ups, but it's not so bad being alone.”— Ari Graynor, Katie, amazon.com