Sarah Dessen Quotes

I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

I'm perpetually lonely.

It's no fun being lonely.

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

We can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone.

Oh, this coming back to an empty house,' Rupert thought, when he had seen her safely up to her door. People - though perhaps it was only women - seemed to make so much of it. As if life itself were not as empty as the house one was coming back to.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

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.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

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

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

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

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

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.

I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.

It's always nice when two people who don't got no one else find each other as friends.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it.

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

Everyone wants to feel loved, but when all you feel is alone it's tough to accomplish anything else.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

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.