Alice Hoffman Quotes

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.

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.

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

I am alone here in New York, no longer a we.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

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

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

I fear we might be losing the basic human facility to be alone - and with that you throw out independent decision-making, what to trust, what not to trust; key stuff - a perilous loss.

On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people; and then I go home alone.

You are forever alone.

Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming.

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.

I had family and friends back home. Just because I could potentially feel alone in Los Angeles, that didn't mean I was alone.