“There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths and contains the rocker. It's an inside kind--wrapped tight like skin. Then there is the loneliness that roams. No rocking can hold it down. It is alive. On its own. A dry and spreading thing that makes the sound of one's own feet going seem to come from a far-off place.”
― Toni Morrison, Beloved

“I think only when you are truly alone can you see you never were.”
― Kelly Moran, Summer's Road

“A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.”
― Thomas Mann, Death in Venice

“I wish to spend a lifetime near a lighthouse where loneliness will be the glimmer of luminous prancing upon ocean waves… rising and falling only for my breathing.”
― Munia Khan

“To be so lonely
you told yourself you liked to be this way
& almost believed it was true.”
― Natalie Wee, Our Bodies & Other Fine Machines

“Too much expectation
can only lead to frustration.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Sometimes, no matter how hard we try, we may not be able to stay together,
but our true love and the precious moments we shared will last forever.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“The hardest thing in life is to find yourself with someone, so close to you yet so far.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Don't let them cause you pain and turn your life into a disaster.
Break free, turn the page and start a new chapter.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“A day without you beside me
is like a day without warm sunshine.
It's cold and gloomy.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Many people seek fellowship because they are afraid to be alone...let him who cannot be alone beware of community. He will do harm to himself and to the community. Alone you stood before God when he called you; alone you had to answer that call; alone you had to struggle and pray; and alone you will die and give an account to God. You cannot escape yourself, for God has singled you out.”
― Dietrich Bonhoeffer

“Virtual In the age of social media, friends are like snow flakes.
They descend in their thousands. They disappear in seconds.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Be like a bird,
Never meant to be held,
In a cage, shuttered by agony.
It's time for you to break free,
From the grips of pain's deep sea,
And take control of your destiny.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Why be crying, fearful, lonely, when you have the whole universe? Be still, listen to your heart, breathe, and know you need nothing.”
― Jay Woodman

“BE STRONG!
Be like the tree that, despite its fallen leaves, endures the chill of winter,
looking forward to the warm spring sunshine and the bright summer.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Sometimes he felt his loneliness. But these moments of solitude and loneliness gave meaning to his existence. He would keep drifting from moment to moment - inhaling the fragrances of these moments like one inhaled from the flowers in a garden!”
― Avijeet Das

“When the pretty birds break your heart and disappear,
be brave and strong through the chilly night weather.
Just look around you and learn from Mother Nature.
Be like the tree that, despite its fallen leaves, endures the chill of winter,
holding on for the warm spring sunshine and the bright summer.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Everyone experiences the feelings of sadness and loneliness. We might rue our lack of companionship, but some people present a desperate need for aloneness. Being alone allows a person to think, imagine, and take in nature. Because being alone is essential for specific human actions, similar to all other aspects of life, it is a gift.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster

“Until you experience real loneliness, you shall never know what real loneliness is. So many people feel miserable and lonely just because they ignore their inner man, create a gap between themselves and their inner man, and neglect their true self!”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“Can I Tinder swipe for cat cuddles?”
― Shannon M Mullen, See What Flowers

“How could I ever be lonely when I am with my own best self.”
― Anoir Ou-chad, The Alien

“The most aching loneliness is being unseen
in a room full of people.

We spend our lives hiding the very parts
we wish someone would see,
teaching ourselves to be invisible—
and blaming others for their blindness.”
― Sean DeLaney

“All human loneliness can be filtered down in one way or another to the singular, tragic element of silence...”
― Nettie Magnan, Dropseed: The Story of Three Sad Women

“LONELINESS IS NOT ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE YOU HAVE AROUND, IT'S ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT YOU FEEL CONNECTED. WHETHER OR NOT YOU'RE ABLE TO BE YOURSELF.”
― Adrienne Brodeur, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me

“It was now three a.m., the time when night pushes into morning, your chance at sleep gone, when you feel as if you’re the only one awake in the world.”
― Scott Gordon, Head Fake

“Loneliness is not about numbers because you can be among ten people and still feel lonely, or you can feel crowded as if there were ten people around you when you were alone! Loneliness is not about numbers, it is only about being in an environment that cannot connect with your soul, or being in a place where there are people who cannot connect with your ideas, who do not look at the same horizons as you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The presence of light does not erase the effect of shadows, instead, it enhances the visibility of a shadow. It is darkness that hides (not erases) a shadow. Knowing that your shadow does not leave you the first step to conquering loneliness.”
― G. Plason Z. Plakar

“It is better to weep in a pile of gold than to weep in the mud of the shadows of the valley.”
― Dennis Adonis III

“My greatest fear was being alone. Alone, I was drowning in endless space around me. Alone made my skin hurt, made me want to peel it off and maybe, for once, breathe without the weight of a thousand regrets on my chest. I'd never been alone. I didn't know what to do with the silence. My thoughts were enemies, reminders of everything scary in the world. Alone, I kicked and screamed and flailed until someone bigger than me caught me and held me. I hoped, eventually, someone would catch me and protect me from myself, but I learned quickly that most people are more interested in taking advantage of the weak than they are in protecting them. "I will do anything," I thought. "Just don't leave me here alone.”
― Karie Fugett, Alive Day: A Memoir

“The end of your loneliness does not happen when you meet someone, but when you meet someone who understands you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan