“If you hear a song that makes you cry and you don’t want to cry anymore, you don’t listen to that song anymore. But you can’t get away from yourself. You can’t decide not to see yourself anymore. You can’t decide to turn off the noise in your head.”— Jay Asher, amazon.com
“I hate them for not being in pain like me, hate them for being able to enjoy themselves. Hate myself for feeling that way.”— Chevy Stevens, amazon.com
“April was too lonely a month to spend alone. In April, everyone around me looked happy. People would throw their coats off and enjoy each other’s company in the sunshine—talking, playing catch, holding hands. But I was always by myself.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I’m fighting myself. I know I am. One minute I want to remember. The next minute I want to live in the land of forgetting. One minute I want to feel. The next minute I never want to feel ever again.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“He felt he was himself and did not want to be otherwise. He only wanted to be better than he had been before.”— Leo Tolstoy, amazon.com
“I experience not only my own suffering, but even more that which I inflict upon you.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.”— Warsan Shire, goodreads.com
“Don’t attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you’re lonely. Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best you can do is know yourself… know what you want.”— Janet Fitch, amazon.com
“She never felt like she belonged anywhere, except for when she was lying on her bed, pretending to be somewhere else.”— Rainbow Rowell, amazon.com
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself.”— C. G. Jung, amazon.com
“The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.”— Lorraine Hansberry, amazon.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
“Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them… awakenin…”— Mark Helprin, amazon.com