Laura Bush Quotes

Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.

The point of books is to combat loneliness.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

A man who finishes a book is always alone when he finishes it.

Books are solitudes in which we meet.

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

This is one of the defining sorrows of books: that we cannot see one another.

Reading brings us unknown friends

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

You're never alone when you're reading a book.

For me a book has always been a chance to reach out and connect to someone and not be alone.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

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

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

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.

I suppose what one wants really is ideal company and books are ideal company.

you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of. -Antonio munoz molinas, "the power of the pen

Good books are as friends, willing to give to us if we are willing to make a little effort.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

If books are not good company, where shall I find it?

Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.

Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!