“Even back in high school, when my other friends would have some significant other to hold hands with on their way to AP European History, I was holding hands with my textbooks or a giant bag of cookies I smuggled out of the cafeteria.”— Jacob Geers, thoughtcatalog.com
“I freighted a leaf with a mental message for the friends at home, and dropped it in the stream. But I put no stamp on it and it was held for postage somewhere.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“Another call, another bed I shouldn't crawl out of At 7AM with shoes in my hand Said I wouldn't do it, but I did it again And I know I'll be back tomorrow night, oh”— Miranda Lambert, youtube.com
“There’s nothing like that feeling of waiting for a guy. It’s the loneliest feeling in the world. Holding that cell phone in your hand as you take out the trash, use the bathroom, change the litter box. Fearful that the one second you aren’t looking will be when they call. Pathetic. And something I h…”— Hilary Winston, amazon.com
“When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.”— Fiona Apple, books.google.com
“A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.”— John Steinbeck, 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
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.”— Anne Frank, amazon.com
“Don’t do it, don’t fool yourself, no matter what you tell yourself, you know what you are, says one voice. Take a chance, says the other voice. You’re lonely. You have to try. This is the voice he always ignores. This may never happen again, the voice adds, and this stops him. It will end badly, say…”— Hanya Yanagihara, amazon.com
“I sit up in the dark drenched in longing. I am carrying over a thousand names for blue that I didn’t have at dusk.”— Joy Harjo, amazon.com