“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”
-Lord Byron.
“All alone! Whether you like it or not, alone is something you’ll be quite a lot!”
– Dr. Seuss.
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and—in spite of True Romance magazines—we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely—at least, not all the time—but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don’t see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.”
– Hunter S. Thompson.
“Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely.”
– Charles M. Schulz.
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald.
“Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.”
– Maya Angelou.
“Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.”
– Honoré de Balzac.
“Suddenly this defeat.
This rain.
The blues gone gray
And the browns gone gray
And yellow
A terrible amber.
In the cold streets
Your warm body.
In whatever room
Your warm body.
Among all the people
Your absence
The people who are always
Not you.I have been easy with trees
Too long.
Too familiar with mountains.
Joy has been a habit.
Now
Suddenly
This rain.”
– Jack Gilbert.
“Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.”
-Henry Rollins.
“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
– John Steinbeck.
“Having someone wonder where you are when you don’t come home at night is a very old human need.”
– Margaret Mead.
