Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.
Fred Rogers
This is good for me, y’know, I like being on my own. I’m better off this way. I’m a lone wolf. A loner. Alone. All alone. Forever….. What’s a wolf gotta do to get a hug around here!?
Matt LeBlanc, Friends
Everybody’s alone. It’s just easier to take in a relationship.
Greg Germann, Ally McBeal
I felt, that night, on that stage, under that skull, incredibly close to everything in the universe, but also extremely alone. I wondered, for the first time in my life, if life was worth all the work it took to live. What exactly made it worth it? What’s so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What’s so great about feeling and dreaming?
 Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
Shut up, you don’t care about me, you left me for a better job, your daughter left me for a better guy, Carlotta left me for Guatemala, my dad left me for damn war, everybody leaves me. What’s wrong with me?
Zach Gilford, Friday Night Lights
Alone people don’t like to hear about together people. It’s sort of like bringing a six-pack to an AA meeting.
Sara Ramirez, Grey’s Anatomy
I don’t hate people, I just feel better when they aren’t around.
Charles Bukowski
Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That’s just the greatest feeling.
Zooey Deschanel
We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders.
Maya Angelou
Have some fire. Be unstoppable. Be a force of nature. Be better than anyone here. And don’t give a damn what anyone thinks. There are no teams here. No buddies. You’re on your own. Be on your own.
Sandra Oh, Grey’s Anatomy
They will tell you you can’t sleep alone in a strange place /
Then they’ll tell you can’t sleep with somebody else /
Ah but sooner or later you sleep in your own space /
Either way it’s O.K. you wake up with yourself /
Billy Joel, My Life
Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them, and that they will never have a decent night’s sleep again and will spend their lives wandering blearily around a loveless landscape, hoping desperately that their circumstances will improve, but suspecting, in their heart of hearts, that they will remain unloved forever. The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.
Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid
I’d prefer a cave, a desert, a more complete solitude.
Cristina Garcia, Dreaming in Cuban