"Why love if losing hurts so much? We love to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

"It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."
— Marilyn Monroe

"I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone."
— Audrey Hepburn

"…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)

"I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel."
— Audrey Hepburn

"It was not generally realized that what children mostly wanted was to be left alone."
— Ian McEwan (Atonement)

"No matter how gifted, you alone cannot change the world."
— L Lawliet

"Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone."
— Mervyn Peake (Titus Groan)

"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)

"This person realizes that staying home means blowing off everyone this person has ever known. But the desire to stay in is very strong. This person wants to run a bath and then read in bed."
— Miranda July (No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories)

"When you're forced to stand alone, you realize what you have in you."
— Annoymous

"Friends don't let you do stupid things...
alone."
— a picture I found

"When you heal yourself, let it be in aloneness.
When you find your own, let it take time.
When you search your heart, let it be in silence."
— C.A. Cruz

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration."
— Pearl Buck

"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)

"Time, is going by, so much faster than I. And I'm starting to regret not spending all of it with you. Now I'm wondering why, I've kept this bottled up inside. So I'm starting to regret not telling all of it to you. So if i haven't yet, I gotta let you know, you're never gonna be alone from this moment on. If you ever feel like letting go, I won't let you fall. You're never gonna be alone, I'll hold you till the hurt is gone."
— Nickelback

"That was the thing about being alone, in theory or in principle. Whatever happened-good, bad, or anywhere in between-it was always, if nothing else, all your own."
— Sarah Dessen (Lock and Key)

"What does an introvert do when he's left alone? He stays alone.
- Jeremy Jackson "Bean and Me""
— Jenni Ferrari-Adler (Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant : Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone)

"You're not alone, there is more to this I know. You can make it out, you will live to tell."
— You're Not Alone, Saosin

"Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded."
— Dean Koontz (Odd Thomas)

"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone. "
— Anthony Burgess

"Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore."
— Leon Uris (Mitla Pass)

"I've finally figured out,
what being alone means,
for today i left destiny behind,
not to come back, it seems"
— Kaity Zaelit

"To be alone with yourself is to be alone. To be in the company of others is to be alone together.

The only time you are not alone is when you forget yourself and reach out in love -- the lines of self blur, and just for a wild, flickering moment you experience the miracle of other.

And now you know the secret."
— Vera Nazarian

"What most people want… what many people need desperately to receive is this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people don’t care about them. You are not alone."
— Kurt Vonnegut (Timequake)

"'Never be daunted in public' was an early Hemingway phrase that had more than once bolstered me in my timid twenties. I changed it resolutely to 'Never be daunted in private'.
- M.F.K. Fisher "A Is for Dining Alone""
— Jenni Ferrari-Adler (Alone in the Kitchen with an Eggplant : Confessions of Cooking for One and Dining Alone)

"I wasn't safe. I wasn't permanent. My life was a fiction I had created, like an alien who comes to earth and tries to pass as human. The affections of my friends meant nothing to me, directed, as they were, toward a person who wasn't there. There was nobody home."
— Robert Goolrick (The End of the World as We Know It: Scenes from a Life)

"Laugh alone, and the world thinks your an idiot"
— Somebody

"...each of us from the seance stood alone. Like so many pillars of salt, we had tried to look back and failed. And in the eyes of the others who shared the pale, flat sky with us, there was sometimes suspicion, sometimes a little fear."
— Joan Lowery Nixon (The Seance)

"" How perverse! just when everything seems to be in order and as families gather round the table to have supper,the phantom of the superclass appears,selling impossible dreams:luxury,beauty,power.And the family falls apart" "
— Paulo Coelho

"The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to... (hesitates) ...me. (Pause.)"
— Samuel Beckett (Krapp's Last Tape)

"How alone everyone is in the vast tomb of the universe!"
— Jean Paul

"When no body's around you, alone comes with open arms."
— Lark me