“ It is a sound like loneliness—enough to let you know you’re there, but not enough to fill you with life. David Levithan
“ True, he had chosen to live alone, but not unbearably alone. The worst of being unbearably alone was that you had to bear it - either that or you were sunk. You had to work hard to prevent your mind f… Philip Roth
“ Don't say I'm alone, this makes us depressed. loneliness are the moments when we can know more about ourselves. loneliness are the moments when we are only in God's company. Just feel it and enjoy the… Kusum Manjeshri
“ ...you hold a poemthat functions half as personalnote and half as telescopeto the heightsawaiting us all. Kristen Henderson
“ Maybe this is what alone really is — finding out how tiny your world is, and not knowing how to get anywhere else. David Levithan
“ What happiness to sit in intimate conversation with someone of like mind, warmed by candid discussion of the amusing and fleeting ways of this world ... but such a friend is hard to find, and instead… Kenkō Hōshi (Yoshida Kenkō)
“ Afraid to die loveless. Because I think if you die without knowing love in this life, that's how you'll spend eternity. Alone. Frozen. Do you think hell is fiery? I don't. I think hell is frozen. Ellen Hopkins
“ You may have noticed that people in bus stations, if they know you also are alone, will glance at you sidelong, with a look that is both piercing and intimate, and if you let them sit beside you, they… Marilynne Robinson
“ My loneliness was an important part of my own little universe, not some pathological disease that needs to be gotten [sic] rid of. Banana Yoshimoto
“ What does it feel like to be lonely? It feels like being hungry: like being hungry when everyone around you is readying for a feast. Olivia Laing
“ God doesn't promise us an easy life. But He does promise to love us and never leave us, no matter what happens. J.E.B. Spredemann
“ I’m perfectly alone right now, my mind is on overdrive, the gears are grinding in whirring dissonance – and it’s just how I like it. Trevor J. Freeman
“ And though, truly, she sometimes felt like something inside her had disappeared, it seemed that must be a natural part of growing up. Standing out too much made one feel too alone to do it forever. Jodi Lynn Anderson
“ ...very lonely and, often, very unhappy, with the poignant misery that comes to lonely people who long to be social and cannot, somehow, step naturally and unselfconsciously into some friendly group Shirley Jackson
“ There must be different kinds of loneliness, or at least different degrees of loneliness, but the most terrifying loneliness is not experienced by everyone and can be understood by only a few. I compa… Charles M. Schulz
“ It is good to be alone, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult should be one more reason to do it. Rainer Maria Rilke
“ But it's funny how even after all these years you find yourself wondering just how well you know anyone. Hell, we've all been tight since we we're kids - been through a lot together - but we still hav… Greg F. Gifune
“ You know something, you never know what lonely is until you are really alone, alone all day, alone all night, with no one to talk to. Michael Morpurgo
“ Seasons happened and things got colder and harder and suddenly I found myself smoking circles in the airby myself in the snowand I was not okay. Charlotte Eriksson
