Why is it that nobody understands me, yet everybody likes me?

Albert Einstein

Loneliness is not the physical absence of other people: you can be surrounded by people and be lonely. It is the feeling that you are not sharing anything meaningful with other people.

Johann Hari

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I think sometimes we fall in love just because it feels so good to love someone, to desire them, to yearn for another human being, to cross the boundary of aloneness that is part of human existence.

Jacqueline Simon Gunn

If you don't care to be liked, they can't touch you.

Naval Ravikant

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

Lois Lowry