— Oscar Wilde

“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person.”

— F.Scott Fitzgerald

“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole life fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”

— Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

“'Do you ever feel that way?'
‘Lonely?’
I search for the words. ‘Restless. As if you haven’t really met yourself yet. As is you’d passed yourself once in the fog, and your heart leapt - ‘Ah! There I Am! I’ve been missing that piece!’ But it happens too fast, and then that part of you disappears into the fog again. And you spend the rest of your days looking for it.’”

Somewhere, there’s someone

“Somewhere, there’s someone who dreams of your smile, and finds in your presence that life is worth while, so when you’re lonely, remember it’s true, somebody somewhere is thinking of you.”

never say that they need you.

someday someone will be there for me...  but for now i'll just have to wait

to drive you into the arms of someone

“Never allow loneliness to drive you into the arms of someone you know you don’t belong with.”

— Unknown

Lonely is a man

Lonely is a man without love.

Things that are hard to say

Inna

and if 

you really 

love me, 

i'll never 

leave you lonely. 

For you 

could be 

my only

— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people,

 since you are still not anybody’s one and only.”

— Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

-kim culbertson

People are just people.

People are just people. 
They shouldn't scare you or 
make you nervous. 
Everyone is just afraid and just 
as lonely some of the time.

— Sherman Alexie

“Teenagers read millions of books every year. They read for entertainment and for education. They read because of school assignments and pop culture fads. And there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. They read because they live in an often-terrible world. They read because they believe despite the callow protestations of certain adults that books-especially the dark and dangerous ones-will save them.”

life is worthwhile.

Somewhere there's someone who dreams of your 

smile, and finds in your presence that life is 

worthwhile. So when you are lonely, remember its

 true, somebody, somewhere, is thinking of you.

Right now, there are people all over the world who are

~Lorainne Hansberry~

"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely." 

— paul baribeau

“i’m learning how to be alone without being lonely,

learning how to be lonely without losing my mind.”

keep everyone happy

— Haruki Murukami

“Why do people have to be this lonely? What’s the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

Ryan Adams - When The Stars Go Blue