Sarah Dessen Quotes

My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention. You are living without it: you are on vacation.

But when you're alone in the world, really alone, you have no choice but to be open to suggestions.

There might be some hours of loneliness. But there was something wonderful even in loneliness. At least you belonged to yourself when you were lonely.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

I am what I am,' Salander said 'I ran away from everything and everybody. I should have said goodbye.

What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

After all my various relationships I find myself now home alone.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

My sister is older than me and would often go off, so I grew up alone in a sense. I had to amuse myself and developed a wonderful fantasy world and quite happily lived in it. I think, in adulthood, that helped me. I love pottering on my own.

My real guru are my experiences in life - the realisation that you are alone in this world came very early to me.

Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.

The thought of being on my own really terrified me. But then I realized being alone is really a cleansing thing.

We must relearn to be alone.

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.

I've had somebody on the end of the phone, maybe, but I haven't been living with anyone or been in a proper relationship, and it's been really great. And now I'm completely on my own. I think I've grown up a lot.

I think it's good for a person to spend time alone. It gives them an opportunity to discover who they are and to figure out why they are always alone.

In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

Create a world, your world. Alone. Stand alone. And then love will come to you, then it comes to you.

In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also.

I am ready to be alone.

Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone.

Some walks you have to take alone.

There are worse places to be than on your own.

One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.