“I hope you know that you are not alone, and in those hours when you feel that you are, just know there are other people out there — singing the same melodies of wanderlust, climbing over mountains in the dark, and waking in the night to stare at the moon, thinking of this large world and dreaming — just like you”
“Loneliness wasn t just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth sense, not in some fanciful play of words, but physically. It hurt... it hurt like phagocytes devouring the white matter of her brain. It was merely that she had no friends. She didn t even have a sanctuary in which she could simply be alone.”
“The Strong Man is Mightiest Alone.”
“I don t think people are meant to be by themselves. That s why you actually find someone you care about. It s important to let go of the little things, even if you can t let go all the way. Because nothing sucks more than feeling all alone, no matter how many people are around.”
“The very definition of what it means to be alone has changed. To be physically alone is still relatively easy, but many of us struggle daily to turn off e-mail, computers, or cell phones... Our students...find requests not to text during these activities strange, annoying, and downright silly.”
“Sometime I wonder why I walk alone on this cold, windy road. Maybe I have no one to love or no one love me at all?”
“You are not alone if you are lonely, When you feel afraid, you re not the only.”
“A person that only looks to benefit from other people, usually ends up alone.”
“I enjoy writing alone, naked and unbothered.”
“I doubt even you can begin to understand the depths of her.”
“Writing is a solitary occupation.”
“We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone.”
“[...][I]f you adapted too much in order to deal with them, you ran the risk of forgetting who you were and you could end up being neither and nothing.”
“Maybe this is who I really am. Not a loner, exactly. But someone who can be alone.”
“I had nothing to contribute. I played no part. I was on the edge. Different. Alone. Everything around me, grey. It was the same old feeling, back again. I was in the middle of the group but I might as well have been a million miles away from these people.”
“The moment when you realize no one understands, no one ever did, no one ever will. You were alone, you always will be. But may be, just may be, someone will look up to you someday. And when they do, remember to hide those tearful eyes, to smile and to say - look, life s so good.”
“He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts.”