Writing is a solitary occupation.

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...

But he also knew that, as much as he wanted to aid and console the soldier, he wanted to be alone in his room with the night coming down and a book close by and...

You may be ugly, son, but that doesn’t mean you can’t be rich. In fact, it kind of means you have to be rich. At least if you don’t want to be asexual and alone...

Suddenly this defeat.This rain.The blues gone grayAnd the browns gone grayAnd yellowA terrible amber.In the cold streetsYour warm body.In whatever roomYour warm body.Among all the peopleYour absenceThe people who are alwaysNot you.I have been easy...

The way a man drinks in company tells you nothing about him, but the way he drinks when alone reveals, without his realizing it, the very depths of his soul.

Strange how seeing the light can make a person feel so alone in the darkness

Never assume you are alone, because you never truly are. Only when your life has surely ended and your loved ones have forgotten you is when you are gone. Gone from this world and the...

Solitude is the soil in which genius is planted, creativity grows, and legends bloom; faith in oneself is the rain that cultivates a hero to endure the storm, and bare the genesis of a new...

My shadow is tired walking with me; but I have yet to be bored walking with myself, all by myself…

When people complain of your complexity, they fail to remember that they made fun of your simplicity.

I should be happy, but instead I feel nothing. I feel a lot of nothing these days. I’ve cried a few times, but mostly I’m empty, as if whatever makes me feel and hurt and...

But I feel more real when I’m around her. Like I’m not fading.

And tonight I’m feelin like an astronaut, sending sos from this tiny box,and i lost the signal when i lifted off, now i’m stuck up here and the world forgot, can i please come down?...

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...

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 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...

I just want to feel like home. I just want Rosabelle. My other half. Where she was day, I was night. While I was earth, she was sky.” -Dreams, Smiles, and Bloody Tears

It is as great a thing to love as it is to be loved. Love is not something that can be wasted.

I don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

But I was youngand didn’t know betterand someone should have told me to capture every secondevery kiss & every nightBecause now I’m sitting here alone and it’s getting really hard to breath because tears are...

Sometimes I feel so alone in the world. A tiny speck of nothing in a sea of emptiness.

Work hard or don’t work hard, either way your hair will turn gray. I should let you be alone while you die, slowly.

I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I’m a thousand others.

So, this is how it’s become? This is how I’ve become? A walking contradiction? I’m surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some,...

She walked in somber seclusion, unable to connect with women despite her heart’s desire to do so while being shadowed by men who hungered for the indefinable; and while she yearned for friendship, they yearned...

I enjoy writing alone, naked and unbothered.

…each of us from the seance stood alone. Like so many pillars of salt, we had tried to look back and failed. And in the eyes of the others who shared the pale, flat sky...

Patinka būti vienam vakaro prieblandoje, nepažintam gatvėje, kelionėje, žmonių minioje, prie knygos, darbuojantis su įrankiais, ko nors laukiant ar ką nors stebint.

People talk a lot about all the homosexuals there are to see in Greenwich Village, but it was all the neuters that caught my eye that day. These were my people — as used as...

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her...

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

I’d never chosen to be alone, but that was the way things had turned out, and I’d grown used to it.

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...

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...

How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life–in short, without you, my life is no life.[Written to his wife, Mileva]

Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over...

Two things compel me to move. First, the fear of being alone. I don’t want to be alone here. Second, the aching need to beat Blake in any way.

We’ve got a bond in common, you and I. We are both alone in the world.

I used to be fine in my lonelinessbut somethingor someonesnapped me out of itand showed me company. What it’s like to feel at home,and so the going on by myself part wasn’t as easy anymore.Seasons...

I don’t care too much about talking, but I don’t like being alone.

He felt if he could not be alone, and if he could not be left alone, he would die.

I’m all alone,fuming at myself,waving a great flagof failure.

From the photo albums, every single print of her had been peeled away. Shots of the both of us together had been cut, the parts with her neatly trimmed away, leaving my image behind. Photos...

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to...

You are alone, I am alone; we don’t get together why we complain so much.

A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn’t telling, or teaching, or ordering. Rather, he seeks to establish a relationship with meaning, of feeling, of observing....