“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
— Daniel Keyes“We live as we dream--alone....”
— Joseph Conrad“When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.”
— Mitch Albom“For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.”
— Isabelle Eberhardt“All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
— Tahereh Mafi“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
— Douglas Coupland“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“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”
— Osamu Dazai“There's a sorrow and pain in everyone's life, but every now and then there's a ray of light that melts the loneliness in your heart and brings comfort like hot soup and a soft bed.”
— Hubert Selby Jr.“Often it feels like I am breathing today only because a few years back I had no idea which nerve to cut...”
— Sanhita Baruah“Man cries, his tears dry up and run out. So he becomes a devil, reduced to a monster.”
— Kouta Hirano“there's no clarity.there was never meant to be clarity.”
— Charles Bukowski“On this road there are no godspoke men. They are gone and I am left and they have taken with them the world.”
— Cormac McCarthy“To be alone is to be different, to be different is to be alone.”
— Suzanne Gordon“A lonely day is God's way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.”
— Criss Jami“The soul hardly ever realizes it, but whether he is a believer or not, his loneliness is really a homesickness for God.”
— Hubert Van Zeller“Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.”
— Abhishek Shukla“People would rather live in a community with unreasonable claims, than face loneliness with their truth”
— Bangambiki Habyarimana“When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone.”
— Amit Kalantri“If it's true what is said, that only the wise discover the wise, then it must also be true that the lone wolf symbolizes either the biggest fool on the planet or the biggest Einstein on the planet.”
— Criss Jami“I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get.”
— Charles Bukowski“The most beautiful part of your bodyis where it’s headed. & remember,loneliness is still time spentwith the world.”
— Ocean Vuong“Here we go mother on the shipless ocean.Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.”
— Anne Carson“Eagle's flight of loneliness soars so high Around its sigh, no more alone the sky Other birds remain away, clouds pass byBetween shrouds of life and haze sun rays die”
— Munia Khan