“Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it’s like they didn’t fade away at all.”— Bob Dylan, open.spotify.com
“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
“…but that’s exactly what happens when someone leaves. They become like ghosts, because sometimes you can’t see them but you could still feel them once they are gone.”— R. M. Drake, diekleineelisabeth.tumblr.com
“He loved her. He loved her, and until he’d loved her…she had never minded being alone.”— Truman Capote, amazon.com
“Perhaps some day I’ll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.”— Sylvia Plath, amazon.com
“Introverts don't get lonely if they don't socialize with a lot of people, but we do get lonely if we don't have intimate interactions on a regular basis.”— Sophia Dembling, amazon.com
“Many people have come and left, and it has been always good because they emptied some space for better people. It is a strange experience, that those who have left me have always left places for a better quality of people.”— Osho, goodreads.com
“It bothers me that no one has the patience to deal with someone who is just sad.”— Emily Haines, musicomh.com
“The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.”— Deb Caletti, amazon.com
“Sure, I’m sad, but I’m not looking to soothe that sadness by replacing it with a new relationship. Women are allowed to be sad, and they’re allowed to be single, and they don’t need to hear that one day a man is going to make it all go away by telling her she is good enough again. She’s good enough…”— Charlotte Green, thoughtcatalog.com
“I decided that maybe we left each other alone too much. Leaving each other alone was killing us.”— Benjamin Alire Sáenz, amazon.com
“I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In fact, that's probably why we don't kill one another all the time. Everyone's just a little too lonely to risk it.”— Dennis Cooper, amazon.com
“One of the reasons why we crave love, and seek it so desperately, is that love is the only cure for loneliness, and shame, and sorrow. But some feelings sink so deep into the heart that only loneliness can help you find them again. Some truths about yourself are so painful that only shame can help y…”— Gregory David Roberts, amazon.com
“I can’t help it. It’s tearing me all up inside. I’m like that all through. I can’t help it.”— Ernest Hemingway, amazon.com
“He knew he would always be the sad one: caged in that little round of skull, imprisoned in that beating and most secret heart, his life must always walk down lonely passages. Lost. He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one.”— Thomas Wolfe, amazon.com