Laurie Halse Anderson Quotes

It's no fun being lonely.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

Wealth makes many friends; but the poor is deserted by his neighbor.

If you're reading to find friends, you're in deep trouble.

I think people don't want be alone. Ultimately, we want to feel connected. We want to feel like there is someone who actually sees us in the world. That's the big thing: to be seen. How many people actually feel seen?

I feel Noah has been alone for the majority of his life and inherently searching for a family, even though he may not express that outwardly. But his encounter with Rosalee gave him hope in finding someone who thinks like him.

I need specifically love, affection, people to touch me all the time. Because otherwise, I don't really - I don't cope very well. On 'Morgan,' everything is shot from the other side of the glass, so I was alone in a soundproof room watching everybody but being completely separate from whatever was going on.

Everyone's been lonely at some point and in need of a friend.

After a certain age, you felt a need not to be alone. It grew stronger, like a radio frequency, until finally it was so powerful that you were forced to do something about it.

If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.

Left to ourselves, mechanistic and autonomic, we hanker for friends.

A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating: living your life without a man like him around.

A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.

When you're rich, you don't have friends; you just have endless acquaintances.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

loneliness has its own needs!

If you're not popular, then everyone is not wanting anything to do with you, or not answering the phone.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

I thrive best on solitude. If I have had a companion only one day in a week, unless it were one or two I could name, I find that the value of the week to me has been seriously affected. It dissipates my days, and often it takes me another week to get over it.

She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.

In a letter from Bath to her sister, Cassandra, one senses her frustration at her sheltered existence, Tuesday, 12 May 1801. Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other.

I'm not necessarily happy being single. It's not really that cool.

I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.