Sarah Dessen Quotes

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

He has learned that God uses solitude to teach us how to live with other people.

I always felt a bit alone and isolated from other people...I did a lot of pretending as a child. It was my way of coping with the fact that I didn't feel like I fit in.

The people I used to be surrounded by are getting along without me. Somehow, that really bugs me.

Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

Life is a process where people mix and match, fall apart and come back together.

Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]

it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

You always feel like you are the only one in the world, like everyone else is crazy for each other, but it's not true. Generally, people don't like each other very much. And that goes for friends, too.

People change, no use getting sentimental about it. Move on, find someone else.

I didn't have many friends; I might not have had any friends. But it all turned out good in the end, because when you aren't popular and you don't have a social life, it gives you more time to focus on your future.

I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.

What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.

I find it not hard to make friends, but it's definitely different when I go somewhere like summer camp and everyone already knows that I'm in 'Hunger Games'... My life is still pretty normal, and I still have some really great friends.

I would like to have a more social life than I have.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.