The strongest person is the person who isn't scared to be alone.
Elizabeth Harmon in The Queen's Gambit, Season 1 Episode 5Indifference and neglect often do much more damage than outright dislike.
BullyingAlbus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the PhoenixTo dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
CharacterCharles Caleb ColtonIn solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.
Laurence SterneIt's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
Jodie FosterThe surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Tom WolfeThere's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.
Tom HanksI used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.
FriendshipRobin WilliamsBeing alone and being lonely are two entirely different things. You may be surrounded by others, but do you truly consider any of those people your friend?
Linda Martin in Lucifer, Season 1 Episode 9It would be too easy to say that I feel invisible. Instead, I feel painfully visible, and entirely ignored.
David LevithanMy shadow's the only one that walks beside me
My shallow heart's the only thing that's beating
Sometimes I wish someone out there will find me
'Til then I walk alone
Being alone really makes you realize all you got is yourself.
XXXTentacionIt is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.
George WashingtonLoneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
SunsetHenry RollinsGreat men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.
Intelligence, EaglesArthur SchopenhauerNo one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.
Bill MurrayThere is nothing more lonely or terrifying than feeling unheard.
VoiceFrancis Underwood in House of Cards, Season 5 Episode 9I can be surrounded by a sea of people and still feel all alone... then I think of you.
Cinderella Story, by AustinWriters may be solitary but they also tend to flock together. They like being solitary together.
WritingNeil GaimanI actually enjoyed being alone, solitude allowed me to think about important things.
Sheldon Cooper in Young Sheldon, Season 1 Episode 2I like being alone.
I have control over my own space.
Therefore, in order to win me over, your presence has to be better than my solitude.
You're not competing with another person, you are competing with my comfort zone.
Have you ever been alone in a crowded room?
UnknownLoneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother TeresaYou mean well, but leave me be
Yes, I'm alone, but I'm alone and free
If we are all alone, then that's also somthing we have together.
Cecelia Ahern in P.S. I Love YouI love being on my own. No rules, no responsibilities... it's as good as it sounds.
Rise of the Guardians, by Jack FrostI really think everyone should be important enough to just one other person on this freaking planet to be fought for. Even me. And nobody’s fighting for me. So I’m done.
Breakup & Lovesick, Giving UpKa Hancock in Dancing on Broken GlassIf no one in the entire world cared about you, did you really exist at all?
Life, FriendshipCassandra Clare in Chroniken der Schattenjäger - Chroniken der SchattenjägerWomen need solitude in order to find again the true essence of themselves.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh in Gift from the SeaReal loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.
Breakup & Lovesick, Missing SomeoneCharles BukowskiThe loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
F. Scott Fitzgerald in The Great GatsbySolitude: A good place to visit, but a poor place to stay.
Josh Billings'Jesus?', he whispered as his voice choked.
'I feel so lost.' A hand reached out and squeezed his, and didn't let go.
'I know Mack. But it's not true. I am with you and I'm not lost. I'm sorry it feels that way, but hear me clearly. You are not lost.'
Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.
Media, TelevisionT. S. EliotHuman beings are designed for many things, but loneliness isn't one of them.
Mary Alice Young in Desperate Housewives, Season 1 Episode 19I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
Henry David ThoreauI restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
CareerMarilyn MonroeNobody likes to be alone, especially after a breakup. But that's when we discover who we really are and what we really want.
Breakup & LovesickTed Mosby in How I Met Your Mother, Season 5 Episode 10Forty years ago, the Beatles asked the world a simple question: they wanted to know where all the lonely people came from. My latest theory is that a great many of the lonely people come from hospitals. More precisely, the surgical wing of hospitals. As surgeons, we ignore our own needs so we can meet our patients' needs. We ignore our friends and families so we can save other people's friends and families. Which means that, at the end of the day, all we really have is ourselves. And nothing in this world can make you feel more alone than that.
Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy, Season 2 Episode 11The loneliness does not come from the war. The war did not make it. It was the loneliness that made the war.
WarWilliam SaroyanWe enter the world alone and we leave it alone. And everything that happens in between, we owe it to our self to find a little company. We need help. We need support. Otherwise we're in it by our self. Strangers, cut off from each other and we forget just how connect we all are. So instead we choose love. We choose life and for a moment we feel just a little bit less alone.
Meredith Grey in Grey's Anatomy, Season 5 Episode 10