“To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.”
“—Alone, quite alone. You have no fear of that. And you know what that word means? Not only to be separate from all others but to have not even one friend. —I will take the risk, said Stephen. —And not to have any one person, Cranly said, who would be more than a friend, more even than the noblest and truest friend a man ever had.”
“All I knew now was that nothing lasted forever, not even a friendship, and that being different felt the same as being alone.”
“I felt my eyes widen slightly, feeling like the kid of the group who didn’t understand anything and was a pain to have around.”
“Time has no sense but it makes all the sense”
“There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you!”
“When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context - the ones they took for granted.”
“I felt a lot better; not being alone in being alone.”
“Strange how seeing the light can make a person feel so alone in the darkness”
“There are books that speak to us of our own lives with a clarity we cannot match. They prevent the morose suspicion that we do not fully belong to the species, that we lie beyond comprehension. Our embarrassments, our sulks, our envy, our feelings of guilt, these phenomena are conveyed in Austen in a way that affords us bursts of almost magical self-recognition. The author has located words to depict a situation we thought ourselves alone in feeling, and for a few moments, we see ourselves more clearly and wish to become whom the author would have wanted us to be.”
“Some people search out solitude without even thinking that they need to do so--it s an innate urge with them, something that they do as a matter of course, without even thinking about the psychological benefits of being alone. These people are very fortunate, for they help themselves in a very important way on a regular basis. Other people are given solitude involuntarily--with me it came from my insecurities and my inability to fit in with others. For me, solitude was very often loneliness, and very often painful. But I know now that I made it painful because of my perspective, and I regret losing so many opportunities that being on my own opened up to me--I ll never be able to get them back. Find or make time for yourself to be with yourself. Spend time thinking about who you are and who you want to be. Examine your strengths and focus on possibilities. Find the friend inside who has accomplished a lot, and learn to love yourself on your own terms. If you can do this, you ve taken a very important step towards being able to help others to learn about themselves and to be more content with life.”
“Drunk forever dreaming you with or without you”
“We are all alone; the difference is someone of us in the bed and some of us on the street.”
“Struggling alone, like the everyday and ending with the same fate.”
“i feel lonely, it never goes away; the crowd makes me feel lonely”
“Some steps need to be taken alone. It s the only way to really figure out where you need to go and who you need to be.”
“A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.”