“I never realized that we need to talk with other people just to know that we exist. That we matter. Loneliness is a howling, empty cavern inside of me that just keeps growing.”— Cheryl Rainfield, 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
“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 leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.”— Ruta Sepetys, 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
“I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.”— David Levithan, 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 that’s what scares me: the randomness of everything. That the people who could be important to you might just pass you by. Or you pass them by.”— Peter Cameron, amazon.com
“We’re all lonely for something we don’t know we’re lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody we’ve never even met.”— David Foster Wallace, goodreads.com
“I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or just not exist. Or just not be aware that you do exist. Or something like that.”— Stephen Chbosky, amazon.com
“Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone, except to ask for dinner or coffee. And it has been like that from the beginning.”— Vincent Van Gogh, amazon.com
“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.”— Carlos Ruiz Zafon, amazon.com
“We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life…it’s not quite love and it’s not quite community; it’s just this feeling that there are people, an abundance of people, who are in this together. Who are on your team. When the check is paid an…”— Marina Keegan, amazon.com