Ze Frank Quotes

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

When people are with me, who can say I am alone.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

All I want is for people, when they read my books, to feel companioned, to feel they're not alone in the world.

Always the aim for me is making people feel like they are not alone. That's just the greatest feeling.

I feel we are all islands - in a common sea.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

That's my message: I'm not alone, and neither is anyone else.

I never feel as though I'm ever, ever alone.

I’ll parade with those who are alone like me. They exist. They are very few, but they exist. I’ll find them.

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy.

We are all in this together, by ourselves.

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone. There was something that was unfolding up there that brought me into it. And I recognised that. For those two hours, it made me feel like I belonged to something really good.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group.

There's a sense of aliveness that comes from connection, shared experience. And you see it in every place. You see it when ball players jump up and down, gather at home plate, hugging, and it's not just because they're winning, it's that shared moment, that feeling of - we enter the world alone, we leave alone.

Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude.

As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.