“...love your solitude and bear the pain it causes you with melody wrought with lament. For the people who are close to you, you tell me, are far away, and that shows that you are beginning to create a wider space around you...take pleasure in your growth, which no one can accompany you, and be kind-…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“I know what it’s like. When you lose someone who is your home, you know, your only home in the world. When that happens, you think, oh f*ck! I should’ve had a backup home. Another person, a place a thing, something to make me feel safe and I don’t have that… and now I’m lost.”— Charlie Countryman, wnq-writers.com
“You don’t know distance until you’ve shared your bed with somebody who’s falling out of love with you.”— Beau Taplin, afadthatlastsforever.tumblr.com
“They say you don’t get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don’t deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruc…”— Yasmin Mogahed, amazon.com
“One day, you realise that there are some people you’ll never see again. At least, not in the same way.”— Iain Thomas, amazon.com
“People die of broken hearts. They have heart attacks. And it’s the heart that hurts most when things go wrong and fall apart.”— Markus Zusak, amazon.com
“I’d ruin any day, all my days, for those long nights with you, and I did.”— Daniel Handler, amazon.com
“Before meeting you, I didn’t know what it was like to feel lonely. I never even considered myself alone. That’s because when you feel lonely, it means there is someone for you to miss.”— Yuuki Obata, amazon.com
“Those who have played a big part in one’s life very rarely disappear from it suddenly for good. They return to it at odd moments … before leaving it for good.”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“If you have ever lost someone very important to you, then you already know how it feels, and if you haven’t, you cannot possibly imagine it.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.”— Ingmar Bergman, amazon.com
“I am so 100 percent Swedish... Someone has said a Swede is like a bottle of ketchup — nothing and nothing and then all at once — splat. I think I'm a little like that. And I think I'm Swedish because I like to live here on this island. You can't imagine the loneliness and isolation in this country.…”— Ingmar Bergman, en.wikiquote.org
“I am hungrier than you are and I still know when to stop. I am lonelier than you are and I still know when to leave”— Caitlyn Siehl, altelophobia.tumblr.com
“More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if I wasn't alone.”— James Frey, amazon.com
“I will never say the things that I want to say to you. I know the damage it would do. I love you more than I hate my loneliness and pain.”— Henry Rollins, amazon.com