Cecelia Ahern Quotes

It would be nice to have someone to go back to, a girl to call at the end of the night after a long day.

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.'

It's easy to isolate yourself when you're buried in work, or to rely only on work friends for empathy. And while your work friends will always 'get it' more than your life partner, they don't know how to comfort you like your partner does.

It's a lonely ol' night. Can I put my arms around you?

Nobody loves me. Sometimes I wish God could come down and hug me.

I need someone. I need to hold somebody close. And I need more than this holding. I need someone to understand how I feel at a time like now. And the understanding must be part of the holding.

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.

Dark and lonely. I need somebody to hold me

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

It's a lot easier to find a friend on television than love.

Laughing together is as close as you can get to a hug without touching.

The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.

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!

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

People I've never spoken to before come up to me and give me a hug.

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.

How we need another soul to cling to.

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.

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

They invented hugs to let people know you love them without saying anything.

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

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

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 face looking at me.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.