Peter De Vries Quotes

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

Even heaven would become hell if you were alone in it, or away from a loved one. And even if you were with your loved one, but in hell, eventually you would cry to have you and your loved one together in heaven. So to create your own heaven on earth, make sure you and your loved one are in a place you both LOVE, because what could be heaven for one, could be hell for the other.

Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.

A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.

I have wonderful friends. I'm not just a lonely old lady.

This whole thing about a woman staying alone and being happy is just a myth. Everyone needs someone in their lives.

I have always been very interested in the idea of loneliness and the presumption that romantic relationships are supposed to rid you of that.

But if I didn’t want to be alone, then why didn’t I want to be with anyone else?

As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.

I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my ''idea of them.

A man may be cheerful and contented in celibacy, but I do not think he can ever be happy; it is an unnatural state, and the best feelings of his nature are never called into action.

I don't understand the point of being together if you're not the happiest.

I'd felt that a man without a woman was like a neck without a pain.

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.

I wanna be your happiness. I wanna be your common sense pain.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

Love, and love alone, is capable of giving thee a happier life.

loneliness has its own needs!

I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.

There is no happiness like that of being loved by your fellow creatures, and feeling that your presence is an addition to their comfort.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.