This Is For When You Feel Alone

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.

Katie MatherOctober 18, 2016

— Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World

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— Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

Alone self minds heart Happiness

— Charles Bukowski, Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems

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This Is For When You Feel Alone

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

— Joshua Slocum, Sailing Alone Around the World

— Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

— Amy Sedaris, I Like You: Hospitality Under the Influence

— Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud And Incredibly Close

— Norton Juster, The Phantom Tollbooth

If you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

— Richard Yates, Revolutionary Road

Alone, I often fall down into nothingness. I must push my foot stealthily lest I should fall off the edge of the world into nothingness. I have to bang my head against some hard door to call myself back to the body.

— Virginia Woolf, The Waves

I am lost without you. I am soulless, a drifter without a home, a solitary bird in a flight to nowhere. I am all these things, and I am nothing at all. This, my darling, is my life without you. I long for you to show me how to live again.

— Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle

— May Sarton, Journal of a Solitude

— Daphne du Maurier and Daphne du Maurier, Rebecca

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

— Darren Shan, Birth of a Killer

I had been alone more than I could have been had I gone by myself.

— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath

So, this is how it's become? This is how I've become? A walking contradiction? I'm surrounded by people and feel alone. I claim to crave a bit of normalcy but now that I have some, it's like I don't know what to do with it, I don't know how to be a normal person anymore.

— Gayle Forman, Where She Went

If we are alone, we become more alone. Life is strange.

— Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness

— Jonathan Tropper, One Last Thing Before I Go

Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.

— Stephen King, Lisey's Story

as a child
i suppose
i was not quite
normal.

my happiest times were
when
i was left alone in
the house on a
saturday.

— Charles Bukowski, Sifting Through the Madness for the Word, the Line, the Way: New Poems

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