“If you learn to really sit with loneliness and embrace it for the gift that it is…an opportunity to get to know YOU, to learn how strong you really are, to depend on no one but YOU for your happiness…you will realize that a little loneliness goes a LONG way in creating a richer, deeper, more vibrant and colourful YOU.” ― Mandy Hale
‘I’m lonely. and I’m lonely in some horribly deep way, and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.’ ―Augusten Burroughs
“Never be with someone because you feel lonely.” Elera McIntosh
‘We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.’ —Albert Schweitzer
‘Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.’
—Maya Angelou
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness.”
― Anais Nin
“A lonely day is God’s way of saying that he wants to spend some quality time with you.”
―Criss Jami
“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”
― Haruki Murakami
“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
“When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.” ― Fiona Apple
“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 I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.”
―Tahereh Mafi