I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to myself.

- Richard Paul Evans, Lost December

You're only lonely if you're not there for you.

- Phil McGraw

He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.

- Marguerite Duras, The Lover

I may be too young to be lonely, but I am too lonely to be young.

- Caroline Yawn

And the bell jangled, the driver started. The bus whirled off, to the last stop, the lonely room, the lonely night.

- Brian Moore, The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne

There was something odd for him about not feeling lonely. The very fact that he had ceased to be lonely caused him to fear the possibility of becoming lonely again.

- Haruki Murakami, Tony Takitani

I learned that day that there is no more lonely state than being in a lonely marriage.

- Julie Metz, Perfection: A Memoir of Betrayal and Renewal

Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I'm not anxious, I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be so lonely because it seems catastrophic - seeing the car just as it hits you.

- Augusten Burroughs, Dry

I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic.

- Augusten Burroughs, Dry

Devon had been so lonely, so terribly lonely, for so long. The kind of lonely that sears, that burrows its way deep inside a heart and throbs. Like a gnawing hunger.

- Amy Efaw, After