Alex Flinn Quotes

I have wonderful friends. I'm not just a lonely old lady.

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.

We choose--or choose not--to be alone when we decide whom we will accept as our fellows, and whom we will reject. Thus an eremite in a mountain is in company, because the birds and coneys, the initiates whose words live in his 'forest books,' and the winds--the messengers of the Increate--are his companions. Another man, living in the midst of millions, may be alone, because there are none but enemies and victims around him.

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 could be imagining it, but I believe myself to have exchanged sly, understanding nods with other people I see attending movies alone on Christmas Day.

I've actually read that isolation is the enemy, so why do that to myself?

Far from 'rotting my brain,' as I was often told would happen, TV helped me feel less alone at a time when I spent so much time alone.

As we grow up, either we lose people or have a lot of them around us. I have seen many people who are isolated in their old age.

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

Isolation among older people is a massive problem, and my grandad used to come round for Sunday lunch every week for as long as I can remember.

Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down.

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

Life is an awful, ugly place to not have a best friend.

I've got more friends than I've ever had in my life at the age of 39 - although given that I didn't have any friends until the age of 27, it doesn't say much - because I found the internet.

I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.

It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.

I went through a period in my life when I had no friends, when the phone never rang, when I thought I would die from loneliness. I know that the real blessing here isn't that I have a book published, but that I have so many people to thank.

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

being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.

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.

I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.