And a rock feels no pain;And an island never cries.

Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind. Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind. Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit.

The reality is life is a single-player game. You’re born alone. You’re going to die alone. All of your interpretations are alone. All your memories are alone. You’re gone in three generations and nobody cares. Before you showed up, nobody cared. It’s all single-player.

Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy.

There’s no bigger pleasure for a person perhaps than to enjoy his own company and its proof is that everyone loves sleeping as that helps them to be of their own and alone.

Losing myself is so second nature to me by now that I’m always surprised when it’s noticed by others.

I’d rather love a million times and have my heart broken every time, than hold a permanitely empty heart forever.

If a man cannot understand the beauty of life, it is probably because life never understood the beauty in him.

Don’t leave me alone. Love me alone.

I like being right more than I like keeping friends. Certainly this leaves me lonely, but at least I’m always certain.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

When other girls were dreaming about love, she dreamt of love too, but in an entirely different context – the ones they took for granted.

Struggling alone, like the everyday and ending with the same fate.

Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know the silence when you haven’t the answer to a question you’ve been asked, or the hush of a country road at night, or the expectant pause of a room full...

I never feel alone realizing the fact that my life is my only life partner

Barbaric is letting the woman suffer to be alone for the rest of her life.

One thing that is clearer to me every day is how much we all have in common, and one of those commonalities is that we all think we are alone.

You don’t know what it’s like, when your best friend disappears.

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...

At the end of the life you have to live your day alone and vice-versa.

Sometimes it’s your fragrance that comes to me, out of the blue, on a crowded road in a Sunday afternoon.But more often, it’s memories of us that cross my mind almost every lone evening.All I want is to lessen the pain I feel every night.But every morning I wake up is another day, hopeless and...

Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.

To be alone with yourself is to be alone. To be in the company of others is to be alone together.The only time you are not alone is when you forget yourself and reach out in love — the lines of self blur, and just for a wild, flickering moment you experience the miracle of...

She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.

Their beauty had always seemed to him like the beauty of pressed flowers – lovely, but dead.

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.”(Audrey Hepburn: Many-Sided Charmer, LIFE Magazine, December 7, 1953)

Begin. . . where you are, NOT where you want to be. Begin stuck in the doldrums of your false story–if that is where you are. Begin there because, in truth, there is no other place to start from. Tell yourself that you are going to listen for the sound of your own voice–and remind...

I mean, I haven’t rushed to the answerphone once to see if anyone’s aware of my existence in the world!

And I think, “I’m so fucking lonely”. I go home and cry for a while. I am almost 32. That’s not old especially in New York. But the fact is it has been years since I even liked someone. So how likely is it I’ll meet someone I love enough to marry? I’m tired of...

Maybe this is who I really am.Not a loner, exactly.But someone who can be alone.

And now I am here, as alone as I’ve ever been. I am seventeen years old. This is not how it’s suppose to be. This is not how my life is suppose to turn out.

I always welcomed the comforting cloak of night except for the times when I lost something in it.

We all do have our own reasons for being alone; in my case, I just don’t like wasting my time on some assholes.

To feel alone is to be alone.

This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed.

No,nobody but nobody can make it out her alone.

But it’s like no matter how much energy you pour into getting to the station on time, or getting on the right train, there’s still no guarantee that anybody’s gonna be there for you to pick you up when you get there.

He succeeded in being considered totally uninteresting. People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

No one should ever die alone. Rejoin the love of the goddess who made you. No longer a man, no longer a human, you must go as only your essence back to She who made you, into the womb of the Great Mother. You have again become a seed that will form into other lives...

She deserved at least one person who saw her and knew how good she was.

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.

Lately Mirabelle had reflected wistfully if people even noticed her – a smartly dressed woman who came and went along the Promenade, always alone.

The person whom you really, really love may not be here anymore. And you might be feeling lonely, but, there are people in this world who really, really love you, so shouldn’t that equal it all out? So, please don’t ever think that you’re alone. I’ll be watching over you. I’ll always be watching over...

I never really understood the word ‘loneliness’. As far as I was concerned, I was in an orgy with the sky and the ocean, and with nature.

Sometime it’s really hardest things to keep yourself alone.

Well it’s good to have a car like that, once in a while somebody’ll say, ‘why don’t you come over for dinner?’ and I can just say, ‘Car won’t make it.’ I don’t have to tell them that time is scarcer than young pussy around here, and I don’t mean time to write POETRY. I...

I don’t mind. I like being alone.

It could be yesterdaywhen I was less in loveI thinkFor I didn’t see you in the mirrorbehind mewhile getting dressed.The way your hands couldn’t stay awayand our bodies always found their ways back to each otheras if they were meant to be togetherClose.But then it was today and I saw you againin the mirrorbehind me...

Joy is meant to be felt; its not meant to be detained. It is meant to be shared with others; not to be felt alone. When all the mouths smile out their teeth together, thats when the greatest happiness can be measured. You don’t smile in order to see your friends cry and claim your...

As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table–the only place...