"I can live alone, if self-respect, and circumstances require me so to do. I need not sell my soul to buy bliss. I have an inward treasure born with me, which can keep me alive if all extraneous delights should be withheld, or offered only at a price I cannot afford to give."Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre (via whatshewanted)
"I wanted “peace”, to be left alone in my underground world. Real life oppressed me with its novelty so much that I could hardly breathe."Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes From Underground (via demise-of-sanity)
"I suffer from life and from other people. I can’t look at reality face to face. Even the sun discourages and depresses me. Only at night and all alone, withdrawn, forgotten and lost, with no connection to anything real or useful - only then do I find myself and feel comforted."Fernando Pessoa, The book of disquiet (via demise-of-sanity)
"The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire…driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there’s no sign of love in sight!"Carson McCullers (via quote-book)927
"Some men are so accustomed to being alone that they do no compare themselves with others at all but spin out their life of monologue in a calm and cheerful mood. Should they compare themselves with others, they are inclined to a brooding underestimation of themselves, feeling to acquire a good and just opinion from others. We must allow such men their solitude and not pity them for it." Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human: Vol. 1, §625 (edited).4
"Alone. Yes, that’s the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn’t hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym."Stephen King (via honeyforthehomeless)865