“Love—in the expansive way I now conceive of the term, based on my research and my experience—is the opposite of loneliness.”
Source: Wired for Love: A Neuroscientist's Journey Through Romance, Loss, and the Essence of Human Connection
“I can't take anything you don't give me. Stop giving me power over your life.”
Source: Deeper We Fall
“Is this my life?
I’m glad that I can write
I’m thankful for this life
And all the good it’s given me
But can I live like this forever?
Alone
Can I really be alone like this? Forever?
I can’t take it — actually that’s not true, that’s a lie
I’m fine on my own
It’s fine, but what about you
Am I really okay
Not knowing you? What if I regret it?
My child, unlike any other,
Can I really say I’m okay
Never knowing you?”
Source: Breasts and Eggs
“We all cover up our truth, even when we’re dying inside, but we do. But it keeps loneliness alive, don’t you think?”
Source: Wildflower
“...you're at a place in your life where you're trying to let people in, so you should have called someone to spend the afternoon with you instead of being a weirdo alone in a theater crying at a comedy. Oh man, I bet you were eating a burrito too, you sick fuck.”
Source: Impossible People: A Completely Average Recovery Story
“You have done this because you are afraid to be alone...because you have been alone for so many years. Death has taken them all. Even now, you're afraid...afraid you may lose the only friend you have in the world. But fear is something only mortals indulge in...”
“Rose had read somewhere that loneliness hurt more than a broken arm. There wasn't a cast or a pill or surgery that could heal it. Although she'd never thought about it before, she knew what they said was true. And even though there was a cure, everyone walked around like there was no medicine for it.”
Source: To Fill a Jar With Water
“Psychologically the sense of loneliness and isolation indicates a lack of, and therefore need for, communication with the various personalities within oneself, i.e., personifications of complexes.”
Source: The Secret Raven: Conflict and Transformation in the Life of Franz Kafka
“Loneliess is a start of knowing oneself.”
“It always happens. Always. Little by little, something inside me comes to the surface and drives everyone away.”
Source: Cassandra in Reverse