Neal Shusterman Quotes

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

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

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

Humans are almost always lonely.

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

I don't like being alone.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

May he die with no joy at his end, The man who won't be troubled To unlock the keys of his heart and make a friend.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

I don't think I've had a lonely moment in my life.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

I'm so high, it's so lonely up here

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

Physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance.

So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

Lonely was much better than alone.