Peter S. Beagle Quotes

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.

We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.

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

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.

Going through life solo isn't very exciting if you can't share it with somebody, you know?

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

I've got a dream lover, so I don't have to dream alone.

When soulmates come and go, you're never alone, even when you're standing just you and your shoes, because you carry them with you.

Oh, how good it is to be with someone, sometimes.

I find running life quite hard, and I like sharing that. Obviously, the companionship, being loved and loving, is fantastic. But I don't feel that I couldn't live without a boyfriend or lover or husband.

You don't stop thinking about women just because your wife dies. It's terrible, but you know. I just want the hugs, the kisses. A kiss!

When I get into bed at night, I hope I don't get into it alone!

I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.

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

Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.

I still like the relationship part of any story. You don't want your character to figure everything out and then at the end of the day, go home and eat soup from a can by herself.

Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

Often, marriage was solitude, with company.

In married life three is company and two none.

To a shameful extent, the charm of marriage boils down to how unpleasant it is to be alone.

When you're in New York, there's women galore. At the end of the day, when I'm by myself or even, at times, when there was a woman next to me, I was feeling alone. It was not the same as it is with my wife. The experience is not the same; the time is not the same.

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

I've spent so much of my life in what can be quite solitary professions, particularly when you're fronting television programmes. I've been all over the world doing that on my own, to be able to enjoy that in the company of someone you adore makes it five times as good.

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?

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.