"That initial anger she had felt turned to sadness, and now it had become something else, almost a dullness of sorts. Even though she was constantly in motion, it seemed as if nothing special ever happened to her anymore. Each day seemed exactly like the last, and she had trouble differentiating among them."
— Nicholas Sparks (Message in a Bottle)

"In solitude, where we are least alone. "
— George Gordon Byron

"It was as if the empty nights were made for thinking of him. And sometimes I found myself so vividly aware of him it was as if he had only just left the room and the ring of his voice were still there. And somehow, there was a disturbing comfort in that, and, despite myself, I’d envision his face."
— Anne Rice (Interview With the Vampire)

"Oh to have you with me, to have you here, not to be alone, but to be with you, my beauty, you of all souls! You."
— Anne Rice (Pandora)

"There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and different from what you are actually suffering."
— John O'Donohue (Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom)

"Now Doon seemed to care for his new friends more than he did for her. Every time she thought about him she felt a thud of pain, like a bruised place inside her. --People of Sparks--"
— Jeanne DuPrau

"The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present."
— Alan Lightman (Einstein's Dreams)

"Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone."
— Wendell Berry (A Place on Earth: A Novel)

"It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impedements from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it: but then the throb of fear disturbs it."
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)

"It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world, cut adrift from every connection, uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impedements from returning to that it has quitted. Th charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it: but then the throb of fear disturbs it."
— Charlotte Brontë (Jane Eyre)