“I cried on a toilet in the middle of New York City. Four times in one day. I counted. I promise. That time I was stunned by my own pudendum. The smell. Then I became ashamed of my shame, et cetera, infinity until the end of time itself.”— Erika L. Sánchez, bostonreview.net
“this lonely attracts men to my ankles, the way the drip of a mango causes fire ants to find their teeth.”— Hilda Davis, theoffingmag.com
“You can only push someone away so long before they realize that the hurt and disappointment and lonely nights were not worth it.”— Abigail Jacks, thoughtcatalog.com
“The worst part of being truly alone is you think about all the times you wished that everyone would just leave you be. Then they do, and you are left being, and you turn out to be terrible company.”— John Green, amazon.com
“When you’re lonely and blacking out in strange places, you let other lonely people do what they want to you. You call it free love.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
““I feel bad about my struggle, because it is nothing compared to other people’s struggles and yet it still hurts.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“I'd be so lonely Where am I gonna go if you turn me down Why blacken all my skies of blue”— George Gershwin, open.spotify.com
“My heart is sad and lonely For you I sigh, for you dear only Why haven't you seen it I'm all for you body and soul I spend my days in longing And wondering why it's me you're wronging”— John Coltrane, open.spotify.com
“I wake up scared and I'm scared all day. I'm scared of being scared. Scared of "losing it". Scared of not being able to function. Scared of being hospitalized. Scared that I am not okay. Scared of what life is and if I am wasting mine. Scared that I have no home - that even the place I call home has…”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“I am jealous of your tattoos and how long they will stay with you after I go.”— Clementine Von Radics, clementinepoetry.us
“Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.”— David Foster Wallace, amazon.com
“I felt her absence. it was like waking up one day with no teeth in your mouth. you wouldn’t need to run to the mirror to know they were gone.”— James Dashner, amazon.com
“I don’t care how hard being together is, nothing is worse than being apart.”— Josephine Angelini, amazon.com