Quote by Tracey Garvis-Graves

“Maybe this is who I really am. Not a loner, exactly. But someone who can be alone.”

— Gary Shteyngart

“there was something about being alone in places that were usually filled with people that made them seem particularly empty when it was just…

— Morgan Matson

“I was alone. In ways people aren't supposed to be alone.”

— Tiffanie DeBartolo

“To be alone was my best interest because needing myself was looking for you”

— Nicola An

“I said I'd go alone, but perhaps that's the point; perhaps we are always alone, no matter the company we keep.”

— Sarah Perry

“There seemed to be no cure for loneliness save only being alone.”

— John Steinbeck

“At that time, when you thought, and I agreed, that I shouldn’t be alone, perhaps I really should have been alone,”

— Saul Bellow

“The thing about setting your life up so you could be completely alone was that you ended up completely alone.”

— Julie Lawson Timmer

“There was something about having someone care about you like that that made you feel like you could never be totally alone.”

— Cassandra Clare

“The sense that the only thing better than being alone would be to be with someone who made you feel as safe and comfortable…

— Kelley Armstrong

“I don’t know, maybe I just wanted to be alone. Maybe I just didn’t want to be social because antisocial people have a whole…

— Chris Bohjalian

“Loneliness, maybe. Or aloneness. The way I don’t fit here or there.”

— Yaa Gyasi