“Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I’m most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.”
“The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.”
“Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.”
“This world that I live in is empty and cold; the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.”
“The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.”
“Online communities are an expression of loneliness.”
“Suicide does not mean there was no killer.”
“Early on, if I was alone two or three nights in a row, I’d start writing poems about suicide.”
“Suicide is the role you write for yourself. You inhabit it and you enact it. All carefully staged—where they will find you and how they will find you. But one performance only.”
“Suppose you are in your room alone and somebody walks in. Your behaviour changes depending on who is with you in the scene. When we are with others, we are playing different roles. When we are alone, we are preparing, rehearsing and thinking about the roles. We have forgotten who we really are!”
“Two paths to realize your divine powers: If you’re introvert, meditate. (Be so alone that you let go of your own company too.) If you’re extrovert, serve. (Lose yourself while being with others.)”
“Bananas come in a bunch. So a single banana is the most ignored thing in a fruit shop. Apples come alone. They are liked alone as well as in a group. You were born alone like an apple. You fear being alone because society has programmed you to feel like a banana.”
“You should not allow yourself to be compared to the mob, or the people who are ready to rebel against a regime which they believe does not serve their interests any longer. Great ideas come only when we are deeply thinking alone and thus, making it much easier to put these thoughts into action.”
“There is being alone. And then there is being alone. They are not the same thing at all.”
“On the third day, my room became a cell, which became a cage, which became a coffin, and I discovered the very deepest fear that swam through my heart like eels in undersea caves: to be locked away, trapped and alone.”
“Robin was thinking, is this where single people end up, people without children to look out for them, without double incomes? In small boxes, living vicariously through reality stars?”
“When you allow your world to revolve around one person, one place, or one thing; this is exactly what you will end up with. Be aware that this, one and only, may eventually turn on you too.”