“Sometimes, I wanna be alone, in my empty room I wanna lay in bed and not think about anything Sometimes, I wanna push back all the things that suffocate me And be quiet”— Kim Jonghyun, open.spotify.com
“I can’t forgive myself I can’t forgive you I keep making myself cry Wanting the you of the past Just need to go a little more Just one more step and it’s all over Don’t foolishly hold on, just let me go”— Kim Jonghyun, open.spotify.com
“Someone please hold me, I’m exhausted from this world Someone please wipe me, I’m drenched with tears Someone please notice my struggles first Please acknowledge the poor me Please help me”— Kim Jonghyun, open.spotify.com
“Loneliness and misery, the difference is only one memory”— Kim Jonghyun, Kim Taeyeon, open.spotify.com
“Baby I’m so Lonely so Lonely I feel like I’m alone When I see you so tired I worry that I’m baggage to you That I’m too much Baby I’m so Lonely so Lonely I feel like I’m alone I don’t want to make it obvious to you I’m used to just holding it in Understand me”— Kim Jonghyun, Kim Taeyeon, open.spotify.com
“I’m sorry, it’s my fault Thank you, it’s all thanks to you These were words you said out of habit Even though I knew you were struggling too You probably think I’m a fool If I say that things are hard with a crying face Will it really get better? If I cry and say it hurts, who will have a harder tim…”— Kim Jonghyun, Kim Taeyeon, open.spotify.com
“Anyway, so I feel like the western obsession with romantic love is symptomatic of the absence of community we experience in our socially isolating society.”— @riverselkie, riverselkie.tumblr.com
“Don't feel alone. Having time to yourself is a big, big blessing. Think of all the great books that could never have been written!”— Yoko Ono, twitter.com
“Porn is a clear example of how our culture is feeding the disease of addiction. The natural impulse to have sex becomes a compulsion to masturbate. The attraction to connect is culturally translated by pornography into a numb and lonely staring strum at broken digital ghosts. The most physically cre…”— Russell Brand, amazon.com
“Being alone is more comfortable now When I meet my friends, it’s uncomfortable Cuz they just ask me if I’m doing ok Now i’m fine, don't ask about her There’s a lot more things to talk about Why do you keep pointing out the empty spot? How many times do I have to tell you? I’m fine The sky cleared up…”— Heize, Nafla, open.spotify.com
“nomadic, adj.: Every time we moved, my parents would promise it would be better, but after awhile, I felt it was all just desert.”— David Levithan, twitter.com
“Here is the truth: It is hard to be in love with someone who is in love someone else. I don’t know how to turn that into poetry.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinevonradicspoems.tumblr.com
“There is only one solitude, and that is vast and not easy to bear and almost everyone has moments when they would happily exchange it for some form of company...”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“But your solitude, even in the midst of quite foreign circumstances, will be a hold and a home for you, and leading from it you will find all the paths you need.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com