“Without solitude, no plant or animal can survive, no soil can remain productive for any length of time, no child can learn about life, no artist can create, no work can grow and be transformed.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, csmonitor.com
“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I have found both freedom and safety in my madness; the freedom of loneliness and the safety from being understood, for those who understand us enslave something in us.”— Khalil Gibran, amazon.com
“The best thing about the worst time of your life is that you get to see true colours of everyone you cared for.”— Anonymous, wnq-anonymous.com
“It pains me sometimes but it also heals me. It floods my eyes with tears but it also brings out my depth, my talents, my kindness and my strength. It makes me weak until it makes me strong, it almost kills me before it brings me back to life.”— Rania Naim, thoughtcatalog.com
“Being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.”— Charles Bukowski, amazon.com
“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”— Honore de Balzac, quotes-for-reference.tumblr.com
“I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”— Douglas Coupland, amazon.com
“But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.”— Dennis Lehane, amazon.com
“How you can already miss someone when you are in the same room with them, I have no idea. But I do.”— Karen Harrington, amazon.com
“That’s the worst way to miss somebody. When they’re right beside you and you miss them anyway.”— Pittacus Lore, amazon.com
“If you wanna know how much I miss you, try to catch rain drops, the ones you catch is how much you miss me, & the other you miss is how much I miss you!”— Anonymous, boardofwisdom.com
“Rise up, wise up, say it loud. Soul, I will not lie to you. I’m all alone. I’m still missing you, missing you, missing you.”— Tegan and Sara Quin, play.spotify.com
“I miss those kisses and the way I used to sleep in your warm hug. I miss the way you made me eat breakfasts and I miss the way you made me laugh. I miss you.”— Himmilicious, himmilicious.in