“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
“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“And what is reality, if it isn’t how we feel about things? What else matters at the end of the day when we lie in bed alone with our thoughts?”— Matthew Quick, amazon.com
“As soon as you stop wanting something you get it. I’ve found that to be absolutely axiomatic.”— Andy Warhol, amazon.com
“I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.”— Rachel Hartman, amazon.com
“Sometimes I think the loneliness inside of me is going to explode through my skin and sometimes I’m not sure if crying or screaming or laughing through the hysteria will solve anything at all. Sometimes I’m so desperate to touch, to be touched, to feel, that I’m almost certain I’m going to fall off…”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“If you’re lonely, bored or unhappy, remember you are…young. There is so much time to meet new people and go to new places.”— Ezra Koenig, teenvogue.com
“I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a [person] that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.”— Walker Percy, amazon.com
“I like to be in my pajamas all day. Sometimes I don’t wash for days because I like to read and sit around. I like to eat in bed. I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I’m alone in the world and I’m just sort of abandoned. I’m not fun to be with.”— Jamaica Kincaid, quotes.lifehack.org
“She wanted to be alone, but not lonely. That was very different; that was something that ached and hurt dreadfully right inside one.”— Elizabeth von Arnim, amazon.com
“Sometimes I think the loneliness inside of me is going to explode through my skin and sometimes I’m not sure if crying or screaming or laughing through the hysteria will solve anything at all. Sometimes I’m so desperate to touch, to be touched, to feel, that I’m almost certain I’m going to fall off…”— Tahereh Mafi, amazon.com
“Loneliness does not come from being alone, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important.”— C. G. Jung, amazon.com
“Some people feel like they don’t deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.”— Jon Krakauer, amazon.com
“People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.”— Theodore Zeldin, amazon.com