“Homesick is just a state of mind for me, that I’m always missing someone or some place or something, I’m always trying to get back some imaginary somewhere. My life has been one long longing.”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“She had a look of suffering and I was struck less by her beauty than by the extraordinary loneliness in her eyes.”— Mikhail Bulgakov, amazon.com
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure in the landscape — the loneliness of it — the dead feeling of winter. Something waits beneath it; the whole story doesn't show.”— Andrew Wyeth, foxnews.com
“People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.”— Kim Culbertson, amazon.com
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. An intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception.…”— Janet Fitch, amazon.com
“I have a very childlike rage, and a very childlike loneliness.”— Richey Edwards, articles.richeyedwards.net
“In the world I am Always a stranger I do not understand its language It does not understand my silence.”— Bei Dao, goodreads.com
“I was so tired of being alone, but I was always alone, even with people around me. And I was so tired of being surrounded, but I was always surrounded, even when I was by myself.”— Maggie Stiefvater, amazon.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
“Some friends don’t understand this. They don’t understand how desperate I am to have someone say, I love you and I support you just the way you are because you’re wonderful just the way you are. They don’t understand that I can’t remember anyone ever saying that to me. I am so demanding and difficul…”— Elizabeth Wurtzel, amazon.com
“My life happens to, on occasion, suck beyond the telling of it. Sometimes more than I can handle. And it’s not just mine. Every single person down there is ignoring your pain because they’re too busy with their own. The beautiful ones. The popular ones. The guys that pick on you. Everyone. If you co…”— Joss Whedon, tvtropes.org
“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.”— Vladimir Nabokov, amazon.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