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One's desire to be alone, biologists have found, is partially genetic and to some degree measurable. If you have low levels of the pituitary peptide oxytocin--sometimes called the master chemical of sociability-- and high quantities of the hormone vasopressin, which may suppress your need for affection, you tend to require fewer interpersonal relationships.
— Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit
On either side of Natalie as she walked toward her own room were doors: perhaps behind one door a girl was studying, behind another a girl was crying, behind a third a girl was turning uneasily in her sleep. Behind a certain definite door downstairs Anne and Vicki sat, laughing and speaking in loud voices whatever they chose to say; behind other doors girls lifted their heads at Natalie's footsteps, turned, wondered, and went back to their work. I wish I were the only person in all the world, Natalie thought, with a poignant longing, thinking then that perhaps she was, after all.
— Shirley Jackson, Hangsaman
You weren’t alone,” he says, making sure I hear every word. “And you weren’t floating.”“How do you know?” I ask.“Because I was carrying you.
— Rebecca Harris, Give Up the Ghost
I can't muster a smile. Even with the knowledge that it's dark outside and light up here, it's hard to believe that he can see us. We should be invisible. We are so alone. Mabel and I are standing side by side, but we can't even see each other. In the distance are the lights of town. People must be finishing their workdays, picking up their kids, figuring out dinner. They're talking to one another in easy voices about things of great significance and things that don't mean much. The distance between us and all of that living feels insurmountable.
— Nina LaCour, We Are Okay
Eating humble pie is not very enjoyable, and it is even less so eating it alone.
— Jeffrey Fry
What was the point of being himself if he had to be alone?
— Austin Chant, Peter Darling
Do what we will, we are alone. The sooner we learn that, the better; and the more we are fit to be alone with ourselves, the more we are respectful to the individuality of others, and therefore the more we are fit to associate with our kind. This was a paradox she would have to learn for ourselves.
— Howard Spring, All the Day Long
Alone"From childhood’s hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring— From the same source I have not taken My sorrow—I could not awaken My heart to joy at the same tone— And all I lov’d—I lov’d alone— Then—in my childhood—in the dawn Of a most stormy life—was drawn From ev’ry depth of good and ill The mystery which binds me still— From the torrent, or the fountain— From the red cliff of the mountain— From the sun that ’round me roll’d In its autumn tint of gold— From the lightning in the sky As it pass’d me flying by— From the thunder, and the storm— And the cloud that took the form (When the rest of Heaven was blue) Of a demon in my view—
— Edger Allen Poe
Now he sat alone; on a disabled starship about fifty years from anywhere on conversion drive – assuming he still had that. Insurance was a good thing – a very good thing - but it wasn’t going to help him much out here. The highlight of his afternoon was going to be staring at the blinking bridge instrumentation – which just happened to be running on the emergency batteries and actually blinking, like for real. Moreover, since his mutinous crew had made off with the Short Shit, the ships only shuttle, he was facing quite a problem
— Christina Engela, Blachart
Saul stared at his Whisky Sour. He hadn’t heard from Zoe in about a week. Maybe she had lost interest.	All at once, the room was filled with people laughing, talking about how wonderful it was to be a couple. He was mildly amused at how disconcerting being alone felt. He had met Zoe about a month ago, when he helped her cross a busy boulevard. Yet, it seemed like he had known her for years.	He stepped outside to call and leave another message.
— Michael Benzehabe
When he was younger, he used the slightest opportunity to slip away from people, without his being able to understand very clearly why he did so: a longing to break free and to breathe in the fresh air?
— Patrick Modiano, So You Don't Get Lost in the Neighborhood
Living alone, with no one to consult or talk to, one might easily become melodramatic, and imagine things which had no foundation on fact.
— Agatha Christie, Murder Is Easy
The best books, they don't talk about things you never thought about before. They talk about things you'd always thought about, but that you didn't think anyone else had thought about. You read them, and suddenly you're a little bit less alone in the world.
— Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
— Tennessee Williams
We might be all alone in the world, en effet, but that doesn't mean we have to be lonely.
— Aria Beth Sloss, Autobiography of Us
There are vast areas of stubbornness and ignorance the Holy Spirit has to reveal in each of us, but it can only be done when Jesus gets us alone...Jesus cannot teach us anything until we quiet all our intellectual questions and get alone with Him.
— Oswald Chambers, My Utmost for His Highest
Your poetry is lonely. And yet, you write to feel less alone
— pleasefindthis, I Wrote This For You and Only You
I suppose you come in here often, then,” I say, half teasing. “Bringing your maids and admirers?”Magiano frowns at that. He shakes his head. “You think I’m bedding every maid I speak to?” he says and shrugs. “Flattered, Your Majesty. But you are very wrong.”“So, what you’re telling me is that you come to this secret space alone?”He tilts his head in a flirtatious way. “What’s wrong with a thief wanting a little private time now and then?” He comes closer. His breath warms my skin like the fog that hovers over the water. “Of course, here you are. I suppose I’m not alone, after all.
— Marie Lu, The Midnight Star
Take this treasure, Leave one of your own,And remember this truth:You are not alone.
— Elaine Vickers, Like Magic
I lost my voice and my best friend tooOn swift, fierce winds and wings of blue, The cold rain fell where beams had shone, So I wrapped up tight and safe. Alone.But I missed my friend, I missed my voice, And my heart still whispered of another choiceTo break out of my binding, safe, and warm,And see what the world looked like after the storm.So I struggled free and was greeted byColorful brushstrokes across the sky,The melody of the summer breezeAnd blue wings like mine in hazel trees.On the soft, sweet air of the mountain glade,We gathered together in cool, green shade,And told our stories, beginnings to ends,And found our song in the hearts of new friends.
— Elaine Vickers, Like Magic
You are alone... you put it like that "Come and Fuck me"... or "I am free.."... but why???
— Deyth Banger
What am I doing here?” she demanded, bewildered.“You’re having dinner,” her little brother said.“Stop it! I’m not hungry. Stop it!”John held the spoon in front of her. His cherubic face was dark with anger. “You said you wouldn’t leave me.”“What are you talking about?” Mary demanded.“You said you wouldn’t do it. You wouldn’t leave me alone,” John said. “But you tried, didn’t you?”“I don’t know what you’re babbling about.” She noticed Astrid then, leaning against a filing cabinet. Astrid looked like she’d been dragged through the middle of a dog fight. Little Pete was sitting cross-legged, rocking back and forth. He was chanting, “Good-bye, Nestor. Good-bye, Nestor.”“Mary, you have an eating disorder,” Astrid said. “The secret is out. So cut the crap.”“Eat,” John ordered, and shoved a spoonful of food in her mouth. None too gently.“Swallow,” John ordered.“Let me—”“Shut up, Mary.
— Michael  Grant, Hunger
Can I say hello?Why?I don't want you to be alone!
— Deyth Banger
The very places that we presume God not to be are the very places that are filled with His footprints and littered with His fingerprints.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I've come to learn that being alone is better than being next to someone and feeling alone.
— Steve Maraboli
People can turn into idiots if they're alone for long enough. (Mum)
— Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
It would be better alone, anything is better alone but I don't think I can handle it alone.
— Ernest Hemingway, To Have and Have Not
...you needs uh man.” Janie laughed at all these well-wishers because she knew that they knew plenty of women alone
—  that she was not the first one they had ever seen. But most of the others were poor. Besides she liked being lonesome for a change. This freedom feeling was fine. These men didn’t represent a thing she wanted to know about. She had already experienced them...
A week goes by and I don't call Lucy or Dylan. I want to drift away from them - more than anything, I want to drift away. I sometimes imagine myself totally alone and I enjoy the feeling. And I mean something by alone, something more than the word holds. I mean something blank and pure and vacant, plus me. And also moral. This blank and pure vacancy that includes me that is also moral is so empty, it is so no one, that my presence in it makes me not exist, although I am still there, and that's what lifts all the weight.
— Patrick Somerville, The Universe in Miniature in Miniature
Perhaps it is impossible to understand one's own face. Or perhaps it is because I am a single man? People who live in society have learned how to see themselves in mirrors as they appear to their friends. I have no friends. Is that why my flesh is so naked?
— Jean-Paul Sartre, Nausea
Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435
— Joseph Delaney, Curse of the Bane
I cannot love, I want to be aloneI will not love, I want to be alone
— Laura Marling
Another circumstance, too, worried me in those days: that there was no one like me and I was unlike anyone else. "I am alone and they are everyone," I thought–and pondered.
— Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead
Left alone, no matter at what age or under what circumstance, you have to remake your life.
— Katharine Graham
Aloneness – that is what SM feels like to me. Isolated, alone, separated, left out as I silently stand by watching others experience life while the words freeze inside me, afraid to speak up or join in a conversation. Actually feeling the anxiety shaking inside my chest as I try to get up the courage to speak to someone or call or text a friend. SM feels like the child standing alone behind the door watching the other kids in the playground – afraid to ask, 'may I play?' It feels like the teenager standing silently against the wall, listening to classmates laugh and chat, invisible to everyone and wondering what it would be like to have a friend. It feels like the 50-year-old office worker, alone in her cube while others chat and laugh in the aisle, still left out. I live inside a shell, a mask that looks like me, but isn't me. I am in here, but it is really hard to let others see. I'm so grateful for the few dear friends I have now. Most people, though, only see the shell and assume I'm aloof and uncaring because I am quiet. I feel very deeply. I feel others' joy and pain intensely, yet they rarely know. I'm not quiet because I am uncaring. I'm silent because I'm afraid.
— Carl Sutton, Selective Mutism In Our Own Words: Experiences in Childhood and Adulthood
We're all on each other's food chain. All of us. It's an individual sport. Welcome to the meaning of individual. We're each deeply alone here. It's what we all have in common, this aloneness.
— David Foster Wallace
Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
— John Muir
People can't stand to be alone with themselves, so they bother me when I'm trying to be alone with myself.
— James Jean-Pierre
If you make friends with yourself, you’ll never be alone.
— Maxwell Maltz
My friend, you are truly yourself alone. God must have broken the mould after turning you out.
— Jack Higgins, The Eagle Has Landed
Maybe it was being orphaned and alone all my life, but I always steeled for the worst outcome I could envision. That way I could shrug and be almost happy with anything that fell short of the worst. It was a peculiar life skill and one I had gotten damn good at.
— James          Anderson, The Never-Open Desert Diner
In the end, each of us is alone, but in the meantime, we must all huddle together to give one another comfort and warmth.
— Sidney Sheldon, Windmills of the Gods
At night, there was the feeling that we had come home, feeling no longer alone, waking in the night to find the other one there, and not gone away; all other things were unreal. We slept when we were tired and if we woke the other one woke too so one was not alone. Often a man wishes to be alone and a woman wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. We were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.
— Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms
I'm tired of being alone, and fighting my battles alone.
— Mercedes Lackey, Arrow's Flight
7500 film, 273 passengers, but unfortunately not alone...
— Deyth Banger
Spend some time alone every day.
— Dalai Lama XIV
I'm glad you're here,' said Laurent. 'I always thought that I'd have to face my uncle alone.' He turned to look at Damen, and their eyes met.'You're not alone,' said Damen.Laurent didn't answer, but he did give a smile, and reached out to touch Damen, wordlessly.
— C.S. Pacat, Kings Rising
I pulled out my phone and thought about calling someone, but who was there to call? And what would I even say? It was just the kind of unpleasant surprise you had to share with someone, but I didn’t have anybody to share it with.
— Emma Mills, First & Then
All I'd ever thought I wanted was to be left alone. Until I was.
— Sarah Dessen, Just Listen
My own rule is to let everything alone.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
If everyone is against you, but God is for you. It is more than enough to keep moving.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I’ve never been nearly as alone as I always say I am
— Jill Alexander Essbaum, Hausfrau
I am the most pious person in the room. Even though I have no pie - I have pizza, and what can be more virtuous than eating all by yourself?
— Will Advise, Nothing is here...
Fear is the thing that shows a man who 'e really is. The 'ateful ones are pointin' fingers and layin' the blame because that's what they think it takes to survive. Those people 'ave always been there, but fear just shows the rest of us who they are, and because of that, they'll end up alone.
— April White, Waging War
The emptiness, the way his heels rang on the asphalt,was satisfying, emphasised his aloneness. A man alone, alone late at night with no one to say he should be home in bed.
— Dan Davin
If you decide to take somebody on, don’t look behind you, because there won’t be anybody there. You’ll be all alone.
— Dan Groat, Monarchs and Mendicants
Walling herself off circumvented the risk of real closeness between two people and the eventual, unavoidable loss that always accompanies love. Liberating herself from the concern of others served a sinister purpose as well. There were fewer people to whom Anna was accountable. It’s the easiest way to lie and not get caught: make yourself matter to no one
— Jill Alexander Essbaum
The power of faith is the fear of the unknown. The power of love is the fear of dying alone.
— Michael R. Fletcher, Beyond Redemption
I realize I am alone and there is no one with me.Is this I wonder, how my whole life will be?
— Jordan Hoechlin
I have people I call friends
—  but how many will be there till the end?When death comes knocking at my door
I no longer hear the faint sound of my heart beat. Then I hear the sound of my fathers voice saying, come, be silent with me!
— Jordan Hoechlin
I choose to be alone cause I wanted to experience freedom, but I realized that freedom needs a companionship
— Ahmed Alibage
Sometimes you have to be alone to truly know your worth.
— Karen A. Baquiran
I can deal with anything in this world, except your silence.
— varsid
We read to know we’re not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone. We are not alone.
— Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Once upon a time there was a poor child with no father and no mother everything was deadand no one was left in the whole world.Everything was deadand it went and searched day and night And since nobody was left on the earth it wanted to go up to the heavens and the moon was looking at it so friendly and when it finally got to the moon the moon was a piece of rotten wood and then it went to the sun and when it got there the sun was a wilted sunflower and when it got to the stars they were little golden flies stuck up therelike the shrike sticks 'em on the blackthorn and when it wanted to go back down to earth the earth was an overturned piss pot! and was all alone.
— Georg Büchner, Woyzeck
I have friends, they love me, the use me, they leave.This has always been a cycle.Until you came and ruined everything.
— Anonymous
A few birds sang in the distance; everything was still. We were truly alone. This was it, no turning back now. Even if we did, it was a long walk home.
— Dennis R. Blanchard, Three Hundred Zeroes: Lessons of the Heart on the Appalachian Trail
Many of us are destined to be alone, while most of us sentence ourselves to it.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
Even fairy tales have limits," said Sophie. "Three people can't have an Ever After. Not without me being alone.
— Soman Chainani, The Last Ever After
In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.
— Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
I know lonely can be hard, but the longer you stay in the wrong relationship, the longer it will take for the right one to find you. Don't stay in a relationship that doesn't build you up.
— Elizabeth Bourgeret
Lost. He understood that men were forever strangers to one another, that no one ever comes really to know any one, that imprisoned in the dark womb of our mother, we come to life without having seen her face, that we are given to her arms a stranger, and that, caught in that insoluble prison of being, we escape it never, no matter what arms may clasp us, what mouth may kiss us, what heart may warm us. Never, never, never, never, never.
— Thomas Wolfe
I am alone. My heart beats only for myself. The strikers mean nothing to me. I have nothing in common with the mob, nor with individuals. I am a cold person. In the war I did not feel I was part of my company. We all lay in the same mud and waited for the same death. But I could think only about my own life and death. I would step over corpses and it oftened saddened me that I could feel no pain.
— Joseph Roth, Hotel Savoy
I wouldn't coax the plant if I were you.Such watchful nursing may do it harm.Let the soil rest from so much diggingAnd wait until it's dry before you water it.The leaf's inclined to find its own direction;Give it a chance to seek the sunlight for itself.Much growth is stunted by too careful prodding,Too eager tenderness.The things we love we have to learn to leave alone.
— Naomi Long Madgett
They will stare. They will stand to the side and watch her be alone.
— Aryn Kyle, Boys and Girls Like You and Me: Stories
Some people run away to be alone, others to see who will follow
— Lifeless Club
I'm surrounded by people and feel alone
— Gayle Forman, Where She Went
alone but trying to survive alone.
— Ujjawal Patel
We must re-learn to be alone.
— Ann Morrow Lindbergh
On the way we talked about the road sign Bridge Ices Before Road. I always wondered, If that's a problem, why don't they just build the bridge out of the same stuff they use to build the road? Drema explained that the bridge isn't made out of different material than the road, but that the bridge ices quicker because it's alone, hanging there without the land under it to keep it warm.
— Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape
She has never understood, nor been able to relate to a herd mentality. She doesn't get along with followers and avoids the bandwagon. She marches to her own tune and does it alone. She's despised by the weak-minded and respected by the strong. She ruffles the feathers of the flock because she champion's the defenseless and pick's on the mob. Does she wish she could not give a damn and live an ordinary life surrounded by nodding and needy ordinary people? At times...but she'd be bored out of her mind when she's never bored alone, and because of that she's patient because a couple of times in a lifetime she's lucky enough to come across a memorable, magnetic and remarkable person - one worth knowing, even if just for the brevity of a conversation.
— Donna Lynn Hope
Only in a crowded, diverse place like New York, surrounded by strangeness, do I come home to myself.
— Jonathan Franzen, How to Be Alone
I often choose to be alone, but I never feel lonely.
— Debasish Mridha
There is a lot of pain in being lonely, but a lot of beauty in being alone.
— Steven Aitchison
From time to time I show up in myself just long enough for people to know they are not in the room alone.
— Gary Lutz, Stories in the Worst Way
Rise not alone, rise with others! If you rise alone to the top, you shall be alone at the top!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
The land wherein the need to be alone and the need to be around people is dissolved together is a complete anarchy.
— Pavitraa Parthasarathy
Sometimes you have to sit alone and enjoy the nature and try to see in the sky transparent faces.
— Sher E Yazdan
And then we cowardswho loved the whisperingevening, the houses,the paths by the river,the dirty red lightsof those places, the sweetsoundless sorrow—we reached our hands outtoward the living chainin silence, but our heartstartled us with blood,and no more sweetness then,no more losing ourselveson the path by the river—no longer slaves, we knewwe were alone and alive.(Translated By Geoffrey Brock)
— Cesare Pavese, Disaffections: Complete Poems
Forget yourself, but not lonely days...
— Arash Pakravesh, Love Story
Just because you're with someone, doesn't mean you're not alone.
— Steve Maraboli
Being alone is not the same as being on your own.
— Katy Lee
They don't remember me even when i'm here, i don't think they'll do when i'm gone
— Roumaissa
Sometimes you need to be alone in order to reflect on life. Take time out to take care of yourself. You deserve it.
— Robert Tew
You will never be alone if you like the person you are with when you are by yourself.
— Jeffrey Fry
Then suddenly you’re left all alonewith your body that can’t love youand your will that can’t save you.
— Rainer Maria Rilke
Life is so full of rough edges - small tasks and expectations that scratch you bloody and remind you that you're naked and alone.
— Alexis  Hall, Waiting for the Flood
Never wanted it to be an imposition, I am alone & will find my way alone.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
They say I am a brave girlI'm a hailstorm for the rainI'm a volcano for the mountainI'm a diamond for the stoneAnd I wonder if I can be real me.I see the crowdI hear the noiceI keep my patience.But inside I want to screamYes I want to scream like hell.And when she call me on phone,I wonder how she knows it.I wonder how she hears those silent words..How she sees those forbidden tears...I wonder how she knows I am missing somewhere...
— Emma Brynstein
By all means use some time to be alone.
— Edward Young
Two things compel me to move. First, the fear of being alone. I don’t want to be alone here. Second, the aching need to beat Blake in any way.
— Alex Rosa, Tryst
From childhood's hour I have not been As others were; I was differentI was not raised; as others wereMy passions from a common sense of ideas. From the same source I have taken Thus, this is art that connects mankind My pains; I could not awaken Resurrected, because in art there's creativity My heart too complacent at the same rate; And all I loved indeed, I loved alone.I am alone.
— Henry Johnson Jr
But sometimes, when she'd be all by herself, walking home late in the evening on a crowded street she'd be afraid of her own shadow following her...
— Sanhita Baruah
Death takes in many people, but still lives alone.
— Anthony Liccione
Strong introverts crave alone time (I-time) as if it were oxygen in the lungs for survival. I can become short of breath from inadequate alone time. I-time is non-negotiable for a high-functioning introvert. Without I-time, an introvert can suffer from distraction, imbalance, exhaustion, and irritability.
— Devora Zack, Networking for People Who Hate Networking: A Field Guide for Introverts, the Overwhelmed, and the Underconnected
Today I am amused, and I haven't seen anyone yet.
— Aleksandra Ninkovic, Write like no one is reading
All I know is I'm totallyalone. All alone i n an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don't know, and I give up thinking about it.
— Haruki Murakami
She had found someone who matched her, a warrior and a shield. A man she could respect; one she could argue with and enjoy. She hadn't wanted to lose that. Hadn't wanted to be alone again.
— Lora Leigh, Megan's Mark
I hope you know that you are not alone, and in those hours when you feel that you are, just know there are other people out there — singing the same melodies of wanderlust, climbing over mountains in the dark, and waking in the night to stare at the moon, thinking of this large world and dreaming — just like you
— Apex
The trouble with space is, there's so much of it.An ocean of blackness without any shore.A neverending nothing.And here, all alone in the million billion miles of midnight, is one solitary moving speck. A fragile parcel filled with sleeping people and their dreams.
— Philip Reeve, Cakes in Space
But-when you really think about it-that emotional support only applies to the experience of living in public. We don't have ways to quantify ideas like "amazing" or "successful" or "lovable" without the feedback of an audience. Nobody sits by himself in an empty room and thinks "I'm amazing." It's impossible to imagine how that would work. But being "amazing" is supposed to be what life is about. As a result, the windows of time people spend by themselves become these meaningless experiences that don't really count. It's filler. They're deleted scenes. pg 156
— Chuck Klosterman, The Visible Man
To feel loved again feels good, but to know they don't love you make things worse.
— Ishmael Emmanuel Balfour
The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone.
— Henrik Ibsen
Above the sky, everything is beautiful, but alone. (Au-dessus du ciel, - Tout est beau, mais seul)
— Charles de Leusse
We knit alone our life, before seeing by it our shroud. (Nous tricotons notre vie seule, Avant d'y voir notre linceul)
— Charles de Leusse
Remember, you are never alone in this world. Never.
— J.U. Scribe, Before the Legend
Marriage is full of such cut-and-dry arrangements, Rhonda thought,then felt that small ache she sometimes got at the back of her skull-the one that told her she might be alone forever, not a fate that she chose but rather a fate that seemed to have been chosen for her.
— Jennifer McMahon, Island of Lost Girls
If are alone then only you are alone !
— Prem
He cried, almost entire night. He cried alone in his small shed. That was only game that he could play without needing another person to participate.
— kambiz shabankareh, The Last Smile of The Plaster-man
Alone.Yes,that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym.
— Stephen King
I would rather be alone than having a solitary company.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
Some time it's hardst things to keep yourself alone.
— Anuj Kr. Thakur
Recognize the light within you. That is the goodness. The unconditional love. The one that has protected you. Guided you to your highest calling. It is the stars in heaven, that remind us we are never alone. The night can never be so black, for every twinkle in the sky be that eye of the eternal blessing and for every beam off the moon tells you how soon the sun is off the horizon.
— Jason Micheal Ratliff
Sometimes you want to curl up and cry until you can cry no more. But you realize that that would leave you exposed and vulnerable. So you turn, and realize that there is no one to turn to.
— Davin Turney
That was the worst truth of all: alone. The word was a kind of death.
— Anne Perry, No Graves As Yet
We were all of us alone, kept wrapped up tight by our sins.
— Matthew  Johnson, Irregular Verbs and Other Stories
She may have been among them but she could never be one of them. She was without inclusion for-as-much as she was not "one of the girls" and she wasn't "one of the guys." She was an outsider gazing in, endlessly comfortless, while they wished they had what it took to be less like the others and more like her.
— Donna Lynn Hope
My alone doesn't always feel good, but I'll only have you if you're sweeter than my solitude
— Introvertly Bubbly
No matter how close people get, they never reach each other. Including us now. Even now, there's a place where each of us is alone.
— Peter Høeg, The Quiet Girl
Her upbringing had given her an independence of mind that made her more like a girl of today than one of her own time - which was why she had walked out, and why she was not daunted by the prospect of being alone.
— Philip Pullman, The Ruby in the Smoke
They were almost never alone, and now that they almost-practically were, he felt kind of frantic for her attention.
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
me ... no me .. gone is gone , and i'm gone .. alone is alone .. it's so bad to feel alone , but i'm alone .. me , no more .. no more exist , but i don't exist , not anymore ! Good morning
— Mahdi Khmili
I think maybe bad things seem worse when people are alone. When they can turn that bad thought over and over in their head, polishing it like a stone, until it shines dark and black. Maybe the key to making things better is being with other people. Little by little, smiles and laughter and hugs can chip away at any dark stone, even if it’s as big as a boulder to start. Then finally, bit by bit, it shrinks until it’s no bigger than a pebble, something that even I could kick down the road.
— Shannon Wiersbitzky, What Flowers Remember
No one should ever die alone. Rejoin the love of the goddess who made you. No longer a man, no longer a human, you must go as only your essence back to She who made you, into the womb of the Great Mother. You have again become a seed that will form into other lives in other lands.
— Thomm Quackenbush, Danse Macabre (Night's Dream, #2)
I don't think people are meant to be by themselves. That's why you actually find someone you care about. It's important to let go of the little things, even if you can't let go all the way. Because nothing sucks more than feeling all alone, no matter how many people are around.
— Scrubs J.D
A person that only looks to benefit from other people, usually ends up alone.
— J.A. Perez
You are not alone if you are lonely,When you feel afraid, you're not the only.
— Matt Maher
Writing is a solitary occupation.
— Bernard Cornwell
Sometime I wonder why I walk alone on this cold, windy road. Maybe I have no one to love or no one love me at all?
— Ishmael Emmanuel Balfour
I enjoy writing alone, naked and unbothered.
— M.F. Moonzajer, LOVE, HATRED AND MADNESS
Maybe this is who I really am.Not a loner, exactly.But someone who can be alone.
— Gary Shteyngart, Little Failure
I had nothing to contribute. I played no part. I was on the edge.Different.Alone.Everything around me, grey.It was the same old feeling, back again.I was in the middle of the group but I might as well have been a million miles away from these people.
— Tim Relf, Stag
The group of people in front of her was jovial and paid her no attention. The group behind was much the same. She was alone without being alone.
— André Alexis, Pastoral
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.
— Richard Thompson
He had thrown himself away, he had lost interest in everything, and life, falling in with his feelings, had demanded nothing of him. He had lived as an outsider, an idler and onlooker, well liked in his young manhood, alone in his illness and advancing years. Seized with weariness, he sat down on the wall, and the river murmured darkly in his thoughts.
— Hermann Hesse, Knulp
We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for a moment that we’re not alone.
— Orson Welles
All I knew now was that nothing lasted forever, not even a friendship, and that being "different" felt the same as being alone.
— Lauren Myracle, Kissing Kate
There is a magic in walking alone, in thinking alone: If there is no one to contact you around, the universe starts contacting you!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Time has no sense but it makes all the sense
— pavankumar nagaraj
Only the survivors of a death are truly left alone.
— Joan Didion
It was as if I was in a picture, a flat canvas, and everything around me was flat, me painted on like everything else: no colour, nothing in front and nothing behind me, not even earlier today or tomorrow, nothing to look back or forward to, just this moment.
— Tim Relf, Stag
I saw myself dancing alone, always alone,
— V.C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic
alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
Without hesitation, Dove chose the nowhere road. For that was the only place, in his heart of hearts, that he really wanted to go.
— Nelson Algren, A Walk on the Wild Side
...when one is alone it is impossible to be dead.
— Adolfo Bioy Casares, The Invention of Morel
Not a word had dropped from my lips, or from hers, that could unsettle either of us—and yet the same unacknowledged sense of embarrassment made us shrink alike from meeting one another alone
— Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White
Leave me alone in the long desert forever, and I won’t give up on my dreams.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I felt my eyes widen slightly, feeling like the kid of the group who didn’t understand anything and was a pain to have around.
— Embee, Tess Embers
I am still living in those days ... where you lived me alone :-(
— Himangshu Rabha
If you ever felt alone, come to my cottage and drink the whole bottle; it is not so bad to be abnormal for a while.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
All the bad things happen to us when we are alone.
— M.F. Moonzajer
I try my best to create a good quote while sitting alone. But I can never create it. Only on talking to you I get lots of lines
— Pawan Mehra
i feel lonely, it never goes away;the crowd makes me feel lonely
— anth
She was alone.She missed him immediately.
— Sue Townsend, The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year
I mean, I haven't rushed to the answerphone once to see if anyone's aware of my existence in the world!
— Helen Fielding, Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason
Leave me alone
—  I can’t struggle when I have the whole world on my side.
Alone! yesterday, today and forever.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
When you walk alone, when everybody is against you, if you are sure with your ideas, walk strongly and proudly as if there is an army of angels by your side! ~
— Mehmet Murat ildan
She wanted to sit in the pub with him the way Sam did with Steve, the way Matty and Karen had done last weekend with their boyfriends, to hold his hand as they walked down the street, to be able to smile in public at him, not this controlled, agonisingly formal behaviour. It struck her, this week in particular, that she was completely isolated. She couldn't talk to him, she couldn't talk to her friends, and she didn't know when that would change. And she couldn't do anything about it; she was weak, because she loved him too much, not that that was weakness, but - she was powerless.
— Harriet Evans, Happily Ever After
Drunk forever dreaming you with or without you
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
We are all alone
—  the difference is someone of us in the bed and some of us on the street.
I'm a grenade, I just want to stay away from people and read books, and think...
— John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
Losing myself is so second nature to me by now that I'm always surprised when it's noticed by others.
— Amy Wilensky, Passing for Normal
What I'm trying to say is that I spent the last four months learning to be alone, avoiding the world, hating pretty much anyone who so much as blinked at me." But when I am with you, I don't want to be that person anymore.
— Andrea Cremer
There's this rushing sound, like white noise.The sound of nothing.
— Julia Green, This Northern Sky
They were drinking, laughing and dancing, but I was sitting alone in the corner and talking to your soul.
— M.F. Moonzajer, A moment with God ; Poetry
And I think, "I'm so fucking lonely". I go home and cry for a while. I am almost 32. That's not old especially in New York. But the fact is it has been years since I even liked someone. So how likely is it I'll meet someone I love enough to marry? I'm tired of not knowing who I'll be with, or if I'll be with anyone.
— Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl
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.
— James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
You are never alone
—  if you can talk to your conscience.
I once read that most people are afraid to live alone because to live alone means to die alone. They have visions of themselves eating their breakfast, enjoying the dripping sluice of a ripe plum, and then suddenly the lights go out and they fall face-first into their pancakes. People, it seems, are less afraid of loneliness than worrying about what other people will think when they’re found in some unappealing, disintegrating state, tongue out, one leg curled underneath the other, internal fluids in a puddle on the floor, etcetera. Most people are afraid that if left alone, they will not be found. Being found is apparently of the utmost importance to people.
— Jessica Anthony, The Convalescent
Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?
— The Joker Heath Ledger
I don't mind being alone either. The only problem is that if you're always alone, you get lonely.
— Colleen Houck, Tiger's Curse
Maybe I can learn to live in a way that makes it worth writing about, and maybe I can actually become something more than this empty shell.
— Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps
I have a good life, I remind myself. There are plenty of people who love me. They're just not around at the moment.
— Cynthia Hand, Boundless
More and more I feel like a letter—deposited here, collected there. But a letter addressed to no one.
— Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin
The lonely people have taught me, that I am not alone.
— Anthony Liccione
No, he said, we are not alone. I have you, and you have me. And there is Arya and Nasuada and Orik, and many others besides who will help us along our way.
— Christopher Paolini, Brisingr
When the world makes me feel like I am alone, love reminds me otherwise.
— Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience
A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars?-Then you've a hunch was the music meant...hunger and night and the stars.
— Robert W. Service
The church grew very lonely about him, and he began to feel like a child whose mother has forsaken it. Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.
— George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind
I don’t care too much about talking, but I don’t like being alone.
— Ida Løkås, Det fine som flyter forbi
The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got.
— Stephen King, The Tommyknockers
But it doesn't happen that way, I keep telling myself knowingly and sadly. Only in our fraternity pledges and masonic inductions, our cowboy movies and magazine stories, not in our real-life lives. For, the seventeenth-century humanist to the contrary, each man is an island complete unto himself, and as he sinks, the moving feet go on around him, from nowhere to nowhere and with no time to lose. The world is long past the Boy Scout stage of its development; now each man dies as he was meant to die, and as he was born, and as he lived: alone, all alone. Without any God, without any hope, without any record to show for his life.("New York Blues")
— Cornell Woolrich, Night and Fear: A Centenary Collection of Stories by Cornell Woolrich
I turned my ear toward the door because I heard him breathing. When you’re alone and afraid, the simple sound of the steady in and out of air being drawn by another person is good medicine.
— Laura Anderson Kurk, Glass Girl
If we stay where we are, where we're stuck, where we're comfortable and safe, we die there. We become like mushrooms, living in the dark, with poop up to our chins. If you want to know only what you already know, you're dying. You're saying: Leave me alone; I don't mind this little rathole. It's warm and dry. Really, it's fine.When nothing new can get in, that's death. When oxygen can't find a way in, you die. But new is scary, and new can be disappointing, and confusing - we had this all figured out, and now we don't.New is life.
— Anne Lamott, Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers
I wanted a metamorphosis, a change to fish, to leviathan, to destroyer. I wanted the earth to open up, to swallow everything in one engulfing yawn. I wanted to see the city buried fathoms deep in the bosom of the sea. I wanted to sit in a cave and read by candlelight. I wanted that eye extinguished so that I might have a chance to know my own body, my own desires. I wanted to be alone for a thousand years in order to reflect on what I had seen and heard - and in order to forget.
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn
Mattia thought that he and Alice were like that, twin primes, alone and lost, close but not close enough to really touch each other.
— Paolo Giordano, The Solitude of Prime Numbers
I’m tired of pretending, tired of acting like everything’s okay, tired of not being with him…
— Terra Elan McVoy, The Summer of Firsts and Lasts
An introverted person obviously affected by her past. Lived alone, had no sex life, had difficulty getting close to people. Kept her distance, and when she let loose there was no restraint. She chose a stranger for a lover.
— Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.
— David Foster Wallace, Girl With Curious Hair
People in love always tried to match the singles together, but what they didn't realize was that some people were meant to be alone. There was nothing wrong with that.
— S.H. Kolee, Fated
The way a man drinks in company tells you nothing about him, but the way he drinks when alone reveals, without his realizing it, the very depths of his soul.
— Irène Némirovsky, Fire in the Blood
I collected pictures and I drew pictures and I looked at the pictures by myself. And because no one else ever saw them, the pictures were perfect and true. They were alive.
— Helen Oyeyemi, White is for Witching
Why did you take me down this road if you don't want to walk with me? Why do you exist all alone, when you could just talk to me?
— Sara Quin
As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone.
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
I think that is supposed to be good, that I get less from him but I feel worthless.
— Thalia Chaltas, Because I Am Furniture
He had done nothing on Christmas day, just wandered around outside in the frozen woods. Hard ground, chill winds and bare branches that looked like they'd been dipped in sugar. None of it seemed real, like walking around in a desolate dream, but one he didn't want to wake up from.
— R.D. Ronald, The Elephant Tree
She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.
— Candace Bushnell
Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each reading of each book is unique. But what a comfort it is to share readings and experiences. How lucky we are when we get to be alone together.
— John Green
Increase of knowledge only discovered to me more clearly what a wretched outcast I was. I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when I beheld my person reflected in water or my shadow in the moonshine, even as that frail image and that inconstant shade.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Frankenstein
I would always be lonely, but no more alone.
— Sonya Hartnett, Surrender
People talk a lot about all the homosexuals there are to see in Greenwich Village, but it was all the neuters that caught my eye that day. These were my people -- as used as I was to wanting love from nowhere, as certain as I was that almost anything desirable was likely to be booby-trapped.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Deadeye Dick
As the crow flies. That’s how she liked to walk. So what if she had nowhere to go? So what if no one on earth knew or probably cared where she was or when she’d get home? That wasn’t the point. It didn’t mean she had to take the long way. She was starting a new school in the morning, and she meant to put as much distance between herself and tomorrow as she could. Walking fast didn’t stop the earth’s slow roll, but sometimes it felt like it could.
— Francine Pascal, Fearless
I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?""A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.
— Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
— José Saramago, Blindness
We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.
— Libba Bray
Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble
— Sarah Dessen, Lock and Key
I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to them.
— Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.
— John Irving, The World According to Garp
Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me.
— Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
— Arthur Miller, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan