Billy Rose Quotes

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

Holly died without a friend to hold her hand. Artemis felt her go, another gift of the magic. He kept on counting, brushing away the tears on his cheeks.

That’s what love’s all about. You’re the only one having those wonderful feelings, but you have to go it alone as you wander through the dark your mind and body have to bear it all. All by yourself.

For me a book has always been a chance to reach out and connect to someone and not be alone.

I have only one friend, and that is echo. Why is it my friend? Because I love my sorrow, and echo does not take it away from me. I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night. Why is it my confidant? Because it remains silent.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

I don't like being alone.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

I'm perpetually lonely.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

I like swimming or go to the gym, but I am alone a lot, and that can get a little depressing.

I don't really have a best friend.

Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered one of the two, books or men. I often hear men prizing their solitude but that is only because there are still men somewhere on earth even though in the far distance. I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books, with another human hand in my own. I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human being looking at me.

The opposite of Loneliness is not Togetherness , It's Intimacy.

In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well... I wasn't entirely alone... It's not possible to sleep alone.

Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?