“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”— Franz Kafka, amazon.com
“I wanted to go to sleep so that I wouldn’t have to think because the only thing I could think was how much it hurt because there was no room for anything else in my head, but I couldn’t go to sleep and I just had to sit there and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.”— Mark Haddon, amazon.com
“You’re beautiful, but you’re empty. No one could die for you.”— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, amazon.com
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known”— Carson McCullers, carson-mccullers.com
“Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.”— Tove Jansson, amazon.com
“The deepest loneliness came from not knowing whom to call to share the mundane details of her life.”— Patti Callahan Henry, amazon.com
“I feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then I feel on my own.”— Henry Rollins, amazon.com
“I had a job, I had great friends, I had a supportive family. But still, I felt so lonely, so worthless, so useless, so unlovable.”— Danimei Everett, thoughtcatalog.com
“You know that being alone isn't the same as being lonely. You make time for your friends but understand that scheduling 'me' time is okay, too.”— Cassandra Rose, yourtango.com
“I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.”— Elizabeth Gilbert, amazon.com
“You say that I'm afraid of being alone, and it's true. I am. And I'm not proud of it.”— Stephanie Perkins, amazon.com
“More often than not, you feel lonely and isolated, but you feel proud of yourself for being strong and independent at the same time.”— Rayi Noormega, thoughtcatalog.com
“Let go of the real source of our unhappiness: our own self-obsession. Stress, loneliness, pessimism, financial worries, and unhappy relationships all have one thing in common: they're all about 'me.'”— David Michie, amazon.com