Jean M. Auel Quotes

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

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

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.

It takes effort to not be lonely.

When people are with me, who can say I am alone.

Solitude does not pull us away from our fellow human beings but instead makes real fellowship possible.

I had already found that it was not good to be alone, and so I made companionship with what there was around me, sometimes with the universe and sometimes with my own insignificant self; but my books were always my friends, let fail all else.

I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

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.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

I get a friend to travel with me... I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It's hard to be alone.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

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.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.

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

I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.