“She left the shower as most people leave showers, clean and a little lonely.”— Joseph Fink, amazon.com
“There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.”— Hubert Selby, amazon.com
“Before I knew the phrase ‘irl’ I knew that irl was never going to be the place I felt most at home, which is a lonely thing to know from a young age, maybe.”— Chrissy Stockton, thoughtcatalog.com
“You know what you bring to the table, and this is why you’re not afraid to eat alone.”— Natalie Julia, thoughtcatalog.com
“The urge to text an ex can come from a variety of places: boredom, loneliness, horniness, thirst for attention, or even the inexplicable desire to create chaos in our own lives. These are valid urges, but why give your ex the unnecessary joy of satisfying them?”— Jamie Lauren Keiles, cosmopolitan.com
“The reason you want to text them right now is probably not because you feel, deep down, that they are the one. The reason you want to text them is something else – loneliness, lack of closure, boredom, a sense of being lost, perhaps the feeling that everyone around you is settling down and you don’t…”— Kim Quindlen, thoughtcatalog.com
“Like all strong people, she suffered always a measure of loneliness; she was a marginal outsider, a secret infidel of a certain sort.”— Anne Rice, amazon.com
“At home by yourself tonight? Just look closely in the background of any mirror. You are most certainly not alone.”— Night Vale podcast, twitter.com
“I've never wanted to seem weak because nobody likes people who are sad all the time.”— Anonymous, facebook.com
“The strongest women are the loneliest because we give so much of ourselves to others and sometimes forget our own selves.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“Being lonely doesn’t mean we are pathetic. It doesn’t mean we have no lives, or that we sulk and wallow in our own misery day in and day out. And it doesn’t mean we are lonely 100% of the time. It just means that we’ve stayed strong for too long.”— Lauren Jarvis-Gibson, thoughtcatalog.com
“If loneliness was a choice, what was the other option? To settle for second-best and try to be happy with that? And was that fair to the person you settled for?”— Lisa Kleypas, 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
“I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.”— Bjork, goodreads.com
“Welcome to the world. You will hurt the people you love the most. You will say stupid things and embarrass yourself repeatedly. You will crash your car and lose your wallet before the bill comes. You will get sick, sad and lonely.”— Markus Almond, amazon.com
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone.”— Hunter S. Thompson, amazon.com