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  • If you’re lonely when you’re alone, you’re in bad company.

    Jean-Paul Sartre

  • Nobody likes being alone that much. I don’t go out of my way to make friends, that’s all. It just leads to disappointment.

    Haruki Murakami

  • When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person’s body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.

    Elizabeth Gilbert

  • All great and precious things are lonely.

    John Steinbeck

  • All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.

    Tahereh Mafi

  • The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

    Lois Lowry

  • We live as we dream–alone….

    Joseph Conrad

  • being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

    Charles Bukowski

  • I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed…

    Simone de Beauvoir

  • I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

    Edgar Allan Poe

  • Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.

    Arthur C. Clarke

  • Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

    Maya Angelou

  • Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

    Haruki Murakami

  • The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

    F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

    Honoré de Balzac

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