D. H. Lawrence Quotes

That's how it is with books, isn't it: They're not in a hurry. They'll wait for you till you're ready. People empty me. I have to go away to refill.

Put down the weight of your aloneness and ease into the conversation. The kettle is singing even as it pours you a drink, the cooking pots have left their arrogant aloofness and seen the good in you at last. All the birds and creatures of the world are unutterably themselves. Everything is waiting for you.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

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.

What more can we require? Nothing but time.

At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

I remember thinking that the rest of my life would be solo. I wasn't weepy when I thought that - it was just a realization that I had gone this long being self-sufficient.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Loneliness sucks. It's a slog. It feels wonderful and exhilarating when someone makes it go away. But love is a whole different ball game.

The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.

I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.

When I was a child, there's one thing I said: 'I never want to be alone.' That's what I would say. I don't want to be alone.

I think a large part of being human centers on the state of being alone, and we try to mitigate that in so many ways.

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.

It is not night when I do see your face, Therefore I think I am not in the night; Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you in my respect are all the world: Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me?

She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

All suffering comes from a person's inability to sit still and be alone.

I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.

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.