Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to...

People say they are alone. But to whom do they say that? (Les gens disent qu’ils sont seuls. – Mais à qui le disent-ils?)

I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can...

Fame is an island, and right before the castaway, the getaway of being known without being known.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

A person who can hide his tears but can never hide his smile is a Joker.

I’m a lion in a strange land.

Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.

A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.

I’m not like themBut I can pretend

In all our searching, the only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.

One day, your beauty will manifest in someone’s eye.

I’ve always loved the night, when everyone else is asleep and the world is all mine. It’s quiet and dark—the perfect time for creativity.

It is beautiful, it is endless, it is full and yet seems empty. It hurts us.

Twilight whippoorwill…Whistle on, sweet deepenerOf dark loneliness

Nothing makes a room feel emptier than wanting someone in it.

El, you are telling me to run away with a man to become his mistress.””I am telling you to be happy. Even if it lasts only a little while. We must snatch what we can...

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...

From midnight to 4: 00 AM is the loneliest time in the world. Because for those of us too sad to sleep, the only thing we have to look at is an empty bed, and...

God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.

Show me what you’ve written,” I said, although I wanted desperately to avoid looking at it.

Some nights are made for torture, or reflection, or the savoring of loneliness.

When we are young we fear we are not alone in the dark, When we grow up we fear we are

Friendship is not a remedy for loneliness. Loneliness is part of our experience, and if we are looking for relief from loneliness in friendship, we are only going to frustrate the friendship. Friendship, camaraderie, intimacy,...

[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must...

If you’ve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays with you.

Claiming to love self, but willingly default to cheating at the first sign of trouble is nothing short of playing yourself. Your ego may feel avenged – temporarily – but your heart and soul, the...

I often think of you all, one cannot do what one wants in life. The more you feel attached to a spot, the more ruthlessly you are compelled to leave it, but the memories remain,...

Sometimes the rainfallsjust for you and meto be the violinplaying in the backgroundof our loneliness’s song.

People who are all alone have every right to be friends with one another.(“The Honeymoon Of Mrs. Smith” – Version 1)

One of my biggest weaknesses, one that has always shamed me, is that I have always been lonely. I’ve struggled to make friends because I can be socially awkward, because I’m weird, because I live...

People run away to be alone,’ he said. Some people had to be alone.

The joy we feel to be together seems worthy of a fairy tale, from the moment our eyes met we felt the crush of love. This is not a passing infatuation, ours is love of...

I peeked in the bag. Do you know what was in there? I’ll tell you what was in there: a collapsible tray table. Is there any sadder purchase in this fucking world? Maybe a CD...

If one’s different, one’s bound to be lonely.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You.

People need me. I fill them. If they can’t see me for a while they get desperate, they get sick. But if I see them too often I get sick. It’s hard to feed without...

Lucy seemed to be imprisoned by a legion of people in her life who always wanted what was right for her. And as a result, in the eyes of everyone, she had everything… and yet...

Il pensiero di essere considerato da tutti un’altra persona lo fece sentire disperatamente solo.

how much he loved being alone except when he didn’t, except when it got to be too much?

Conocía demasiado bien la soledad. Y ahora sería más cruda que antes, pues tendría clavado como un aguijón el recuerdo de la dicha fugaz que había conocido.

My wish has always been to write my own story, to create a life that’s worth writing about. But is a story worth anything at all if I have no one to tell it to?

I’m the one who steps from the shadows, all trenchcoat and cigarette and arrogance, ready to deal with the madness. Oh, I’ve got it all sewn up. I can save you. If it takes the...

…alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days. He had achieved nothing. He had his life–it was not worth much–not like a life...

Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.

Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.

No one realized that, being left out in the cold, I was also very much in the dark.

Love is an actual need, an urgent requirement of the heart,” he read aloud from an old essay on marriage that he found in his files.”Every properly constituted human being who entertains an appreciation of...