Elizabeth Kostova Quotes

... we are all terribly alone no matter what people say.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Do you know what it's like to love and be alone?

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.

When the people you love are gone, you're alone.

I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.

I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.

You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.

I had never understood what people meant when they said they'd rather be alone if they couldn't be in the right relationship. Now I got it.

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.

Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone

I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

You can pretend for a long time, but one day it all falls away and you are alone. We are alone in the most beautiful place in the world.

There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.

Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. You were born alone, even if you were born conjoined. And you die alone, unable to bring a single person with you.

There is no loneliness like the loneliness of a dead marriage.

There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.