Scared of Each Other

“All great and precious things are lonely.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love

“I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
― John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men