“A season of loneliness and isolation is when the caterpillar gets its wings. Remember that next time you feel alone.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“You don’t need a significant other to lead a significant life.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“So many people are so terrified to be alone that they settle for a loveless relationship or stay trapped in a miserable one for months and even years on end. But as it turns out, alone means unique, unequaled, and unexcelled. Or in other words: Unparalleled. Unrepeatable. Unable to be imitated or duplicated. Brave. FABULOUSLY ORIGINAL.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“Loneliness is designed to help you discover who you are…and to stop looking outside yourself for your worth.”
Source: The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
“You don’t know what it means to be betrayed!
Should I explain it to you? It means to be treated like trash and your feelings get stepped on…
you get hurt over and over again and in the end you are left alone!
Can’t you see how much I care for you? How hard I’m trying to connect with you?
When did I ever betray you?
When did I ever leave you alone?”
Source: We Were There, Vol. 1
“Ursula craved solitude but she hated loneliness”
Source: Life After Life
“I also had a dim idea that if I walked the streets of New York by myself all night something of the city's mystery and magnificence might rub off on me at last. But I gave it up.”
Source: the bell jar
“There was no waking from this nightmare, no comforting whisper in the dark that he was safe really, that it was all in his imagination; the last and greatest of his protectors had died, and he was more alone than he had ever been.”
Source: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“Losing myself is so second nature to me by now that I'm always surprised when it's noticed by others.”
Source: Passing for Normal
“And it was the din of all these hollow-sounding voices that made him halt irresolutely in the pursuit of phantoms. He gave them ear only for a time but he was happy only when he was far from them, beyond their call, alone or in the company of phantasmal comrades.”
Source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man