Fake friends are like shadows...

Fake friends are like shadows, always near you at your brightest moments.
But nowhere to be seen at your darkest hours.

If you know someone who’s depressed

If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation, depression just is, like the weather.

Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who is depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest and best things you will ever do.
- Stephen Fry

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Some people just act like they are trying to help you

Don’t depend too much on anyone...

Don’t depend too much on anyone in this world.
Because even your shadow leaves you when you’re in darkness. 

Never be dependent to anyone in this world
because even your own shadow leaves you when you’re in darkness.

Solitude strengthens, loneliness kills.

Loneliness and trust

One of the key ideas in loneliness research is trust and what they have found is that the more trusting you are as an individual the less likely you are to have problems with loneliness…

The more distrustful you are, one researcher used the word automatic, you will automatically start having more problems with loneliness. And you can take that back to childhood where you can learn a trusting way of being with your care giver or you can learn perhaps that care giver isn’t someone you can fully trust. And if the latter scenario was true for you you’re going to be less and less trusting, not just of your care giver but of the other people you come across in life.

That’s usually referred to as “anxious attatchment” and if that is the situation you’re facing, if you’ve grown up rightly or wrongly thinking that the only person you can truly rely on is yourself, you will definitely be a good candidate for loneliness.
- Emily White

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When you are lonely or in darkness

I wish I could show you, when you are lonely or in darkness,
the astonishing light of your own being.

All you really want is to be found

You sometimes think you want to disappear but all you really want is to be found.

The worst part about being strong...

The worst part about being strong is that no one ever asks if you’re okay.

I am already disturbed. Please come in.

It’s like I’m homesick for a place that doesn’t even exist.

Sometimes you just need to be alone…

Sometimes you just need to be alone…
not to be lonely, but to enjoy your free time being yourself.

Because you know how it feels...

Being there for people because you know how it feels to have no one there for you.

The price of being...

The price of being a sheep is boredom.
The price of being a wolf is loneliness.
Choose one or the other with great care.

- Hugh MacLeod

In the end we will remember

In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies,
but the silence of our friends.
- Dr. King

To end up all alone

I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not.
The worst thing in life is to end up with people that make you feel all alone
- Robin Williams

Someone who gave up on you

Don’t feel sad over someone who gave up on you.
Feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone
who never would have given up on them.

I loved...

And all I loved, I loved alone

 - Edgar Allan Poe

Alone

I have to be alone very often. I’d be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That’s how I refuel.
- Audrey Hepburn

Lonley

People think being alone makes you lonely but I don’t think that’s true.
Being surrounded by the wrong people is the loneliest thing in the world.
- Kim Culbertson