When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.

— bell hooks

Let not the jolly be alone in the world, for they shall talk about the future and snag to do the exercises.

— Auliq Ice

Let not the jolly be alone in the world, for they shall talk about the future and snag to do the exercises.

— Auliq Ice

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

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

Underwater, we're drowning victims, struggling over and under each others' bodies. But above, we bob with the tide,undercurrents pulling us just far enough apart ,so that we're drifting parallel but not together.

— Craig Thompson

People cannot win against their loneliness because loneliness is this world’s worst kind of pain.

— Masashi Kishimoto

I just never noticed how little of me existed before. I was a shadow without a person.

— Michael J. Sullivan

I'm not going anywhere,' she told me that night. But until we are old ladies--a cypress age, a Sawtooth age--I will continue to link arms with her, in public, in private, in a panic of love.

— Karen Russell

The return of solitude was not quite as Dina expected it to be. These many years I made a virtue of inescapable reality, she thought, calling it peace and quiet.

— Rohinton Mistry