“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”— Tennessee Williams, amazon.com
“I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire...”— Marcel Proust, amazon.com
“Touch me. Soft eyes. Soft soft soft hand. I am lonely here. Sad too. Touch, touch me.”— James Joyce, amazon.com
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”— Henry Rollins, goodreads.com
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”— Anaïs Nin, amazon.com
“You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody’s one and only.”— Anne Frank, amazon.com
“It’s okay to be 18, and 22, and 29 and still not understand your worth because finally seeing it doesn’t happen overnight. It takes years of self-destructive relationships, and lonely mornings, and finally – a morning when you wake up and discover that you’re not lonely anymore.”— Courtney Dercqu, thoughtcatalog.com
“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”— Friedrich Nietzsche, amazon.com
“I think I’m just breathing, that’s all. And there’s a difference between breathing and being alive.”— John Boyne, amazon.com
“Solitude is independence. It had been my wish and with the years I had attained it. It was cold. Oh, cold enough! But it was also still, wonderfully still and vast like the cold stillness of space in which the stars revolve.”— Hermann Hesse, amazon.com
“Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them… awakenin…”— Mark Helprin, amazon.com
“When something bothered me, I didn’t talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that’s just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“It’s just so out of control. Life, I mean. The way it flies off in all these different directions without your permission.”— Sara Zarr, amazon.com
“Alone had always felt like an actual place to me, as if it weren’t a state of being, but rather a room where I could retreat to be who I really was.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“Sometimes, it’s a person’s decision to be single. Sometimes, people just don’t want a significant other. And it doesn’t mean that anything is wrong with them. It doesn’t mean that they are lonely. It doesn’t mean that their standards are too high.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com