Richard Brautigan Quotes

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well... I wasn't entirely alone... It's not possible to sleep alone.

If your friend is sick and dying, the most important thing he wants is not an explanation; he wants you to sit with him. He's terrified of being alone more than anything else. So, God has not left us 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 would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It's so wonderful, going to bed.

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

When you are about to die, a wombat is better than no company at all.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.

The muses visit when I'm lonely.

For most of my childhood, even through college, there was a lot of feeling very alone. I loved TV, so when those very special episodes of anything came, or when certain characters reflected the world I lived in, I felt connected.

I regard bed as my best friend.

I am around people I love to be with all day; I'm not lonely. The simplest, happiest pleasure is being on my couch with my dog, Neville. Nothing is more comforting or soothing.

There are some people who make you feel less lonely.

It's easy to isolate yourself when you're buried in work, or to rely only on work friends for empathy. And while your work friends will always 'get it' more than your life partner, they don't know how to comfort you like your partner does.

Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.

I think people come to my music just to feel less lonely.

Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.

And there's no one there to dry your tears. I could hold you for a million years. To make you feel my love.

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

I wish I had somebody to rock me to sleep.

It's a lonely ol' night. Can I put my arms around you?

Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.