“I am a loner, a crazy, wide-eyed loner on a doomed mission to Venus to battle with the three-headed megabeast, but on the way I caught cornflakes disease.”— Carlos Davis, Anthony Fingleton, Drop Dead Fred, Rik Mayall, imdb.com
“I settled into a life on autopilot, working and working out, rising at 5 a.m. to knock out a yoga class before spending the workday managing performance logistics. I pored over books and caught up on movies I’d been meaning to watch.”— Rainesford Stauffer, medium.com
“She had been an outsider, always the lonely girl, the one who stayed at home watching tv on Saturday nights while her friends went to parties and out on dates.”— R.L. Stine, amazon.com
“You can’t always be pushing people away. Someday nobody’ll come back.”— Jacqueline Woodson, amazon.com
“I feel like more and more I come to loathe any dominion of one over another; any leadership, any imposition of the will. Is it chiefly intellectual snobbery that makes me dislike most people? I don’t know. I know that I am full of anger.”— Virginia Woolf, amazon.com
“Deep in my heart I know I am a loner. I have tried to blend in with the world and be sociable, but the more people I meet the more disappointed I am. So, I’ve learned to enjoy myself, my family, and a few good friends.”— Steven Aitchison, onlinecounsellingcollege.tumblr.com
“Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated.”— Albert Einstein, einstein-website.de
“He said, ‘Don’t you feel lonely living in your own little world?’ She whispered, ‘Don’t you feel powerless living in other people’s worlds?”— F.G., theslytherinworld.tumblr.com
“If people never become real, it's harder for them to disappoint you. That's why the internet is good for sad people. You can be with people without having to be with people.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“I would rather be on the Internet engaging with half-imaginary people in a fake way than in real life engaging with real people in a real way.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“I am a puppy for attention from imaginary people. I am lonely among real human beings and would rather be on my phone than engage with reality.”— Melissa Broder, amazon.com
“shoutout to everyone who doesnt actually have a solid best friend because their best friends have better best friends or because they dont bond enough with people to have best friends or because their ‘best friends’ constantly come and go and it just kinda leaves them feeling vaguely isolated even t…”— Lili May, facebook.com
“I’m learning so many different ways to be quiet. There’s how I stand in the lawn, that’s one way. There’s also how I stand in the field across from the street, that’s another way because I’m farther from people and therefore more likely to be alone. There’s how I don’t answer the phone, and how I so…”— Ada Limon, amazon.com
“And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.”— Stephen Colbert, esquire.com
“If i don’t go, I’ll feel like i never made an effort, and I’ll feel left out. If i do go, I’ll feel like I made an effort, but I’ll still feel left. It’s either be there but feeling lonely and out of the loop or at home watching from on social media, feeling lonely and out of the loop.”— colourpalate, colourpalate.tumblr.com
“If you turn off the news and actually socialize with people, you’ll notice how little hate there is out there.”— just-shower-thoughts, just-shower-thoughts.tumblr.com
“I never had that many friends growing up so I learned to be okay with just me.”— Priscilla Ahn, play.spotify.com
“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.”— Jodi Picoult, amazon.com