“ From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood. There was po… Betty Smith
“ With all this darkness round me I feel less alone. In a way. I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to . . . me. Samuel Beckett
“ It was more when things slowed down, during the parts when you were supposed to have fun, that my lack of friends felt obvious- on Saturday nights, when there dances I didn't go to, and during visitat… Curtis Sittenfeld
“ In good company your thoughts run, in solitude your thought is still; it goes deeper and makes for itself a deeper groove, delves. Delve meansa 'dig with a spade'; it means hard work. In talk your min… Rumer Godden
“ In spring of youth it was my lotTo haunt of the wide world a spotThe which I could not love the less-So lovely was the lonelinessOf a wild lake, with black rock bound,And the tall pines that towered a… Edgar Allan Poe
“ At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly with a simple change of position while he slept, an… Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“ Prime numbers are divisible only by 1 and by themselves. They hold their place in the infinite series of natural numbers, squashed, like all numbers, between two others, but one step further than the… Paolo Giordano
“ When I consider the men (like my father) I have treated in psychotherapy, I recognize the challenge I face as a counselor. These men are in counseling due to an insistent wife, troubled child or their… Mary Crocker Cook
“ The fear of being alone is a great obstacle to attracting the relationship that is right for you. Charles F. Glassman
“ You know-- one loves the sunset, when one is so sad...""Were you so sad, then?" I asked, "on the day of the forty-four sunsets?"But the little prince made no reply. Antoine de Saint-Exupery
“ He was lonely because he could imagine himself as anything but himself and as anywhere but where he was. His competitiveness and self-centeredness cut him off from any thought of shared life. He wante… Wendell Berry
“ Aye, though he loved her from his soul with such a self denying love as woman seldom wins; he spoke from first to last of Martin. Charles Dickens
“ If others fell by the wayside, dear women and strong, loved by men, how had she, single and unloved, kept her sanity? Glendon Swarthout
“ Being alone is much better than being around negative people out of loneliness or desperation. Bryant McGill
“ Spending too much time in one's individual silo can produce pride, isolation, and a stagnated ministry. James MacDonald
“ I agree with Proust in this, he says, that books create their own silences in ways that friends rarely do. And the silence that grows palpable when one has finished a canto of Dante, he says, is quite… Gabriel Josipovici
“ She's even been practicing making out with the back of her hand. Which was about as effective as tickling yourself. It's why you needed other fingers, other tongues. Only other people can make you fee… Lauren Beukes
“ When our heart is closed, it can create a lonely and isolated feeling together with the attitude: "Nobody loves me" or "Nobody cares about me", which can make it hard for other people to love us. Swami Dhyan Giten
