Mary Stewart Quotes

He felt changed, but there was no one to tell.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.

There's a difference between loneliness and solitude. You pursue solitude, I think. But loneliness is a completely different isolating thing.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

Solitude is the human condition in which I keep myself company. Loneliness comes about when I am alone without being able to split up into the two-in-one, without being able to keep myself company.

At any moment solitude may put on the face of loneliness.

I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

We’re always alone. You can be in a crowded room and still feel the bite of loneliness. Personally, I find that it bites deepest whenever others are around.

Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

But the touch or company of any man whatsoever stirreth up their heat, which in their solitude was hushed and quiet, and lay as cinders raked up in ashes.

Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.

Alone.'Twas her destiny to be ever surrounded by others, yet ever alone.

Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.

Humans are almost always lonely.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? If I'm such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it's out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she's sure it's not out of order?

Feeling alone guides the mind.

Alone everything changes. Some might call it distorted reality but it's exactly the place I need to be.

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.