“I m not alone. You re always here, in my heart, between each breath, folded in the lines of my palm.”
“Worthless day, not needed life. Unimportant matters, never ending fight.”
“Most famous people I know or work with feel alone. They can only name a handful of people they can trust. Don’t think that your circle is too small. Small circles are all we really have.”
“I watch my classmates spilling out of school, in groups of two or three, their formations intimidatingly organic. Atoms into molecules. Like usual, I am alone.”
“being alone is good sometimes. Because no matter what happens, ther are times in your life when all you have is you. And you ve got to learn to have your own back.”
“If solitude is the school of genius, as the historian Edward Gibbon put it, then the crowded, busy world is the purgatory of the idiot.”
“The earth is a seed planted in space; the darkest and yet the richest soil in the universe.”
“The person who tries to place you in the darkness they live in has reached full blown distress. This is the saddest part of their situation. They are about to give up. Instead of reaching for help, they reach for company so they’re not alone.”
“When one is alone, imperfection must be endured every minute of the day.”
“Nothing was okay. And he was far from home.”
“But there are tears in my eyes and then I can’t stop crying, stood there on that practice pitch in the dark, the tears rolling down my bloody cheeks, for once in my fucking life glad that I’m alone.”
“This year taught me that my loneliness has more to do with myself than anyone else. The loneliest I will ever be is when I do not have the strength to love myself.”
“I have never really believed in a smiling face. They might just be hiding a pain. I mean look at me, I smile all the time.”
“She asked him What do you do when you feel alone and lonely? And he said I talk to the mountains!”
“My soul left me when I was six. It flew away past a flapping curtain over a window. I ran after it, but it never came back. It left me alone on wet stinking mattresses. It left me alone in the choking dark. It took my tongue, my heart, and my mind.”
“No angels or Gods, neither old or new sang for them. Only oblivion kept them company as the coaxing whisper of fatigue lulled a few to ruin.”
“Do you usually dine alone? I asked. No, he said. I always dine with a book.”