Eve Ensler Quotes

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.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

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.'

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

There is no insurmountable solitude.

Music is your only friend until the end...

The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

One of the wonderful things about this glorious holiday trip I'm on is that I'm in public with people. It hasn't been inclined... I don't know - something to do with the death of my wife. It's inclined to make me isolated.

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.

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

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

I love nicknames. It makes me feel loved. It makes me feel less alone in this world.

A lot of married people certainly have wonderful relationships with their dogs, but when you're single and your dog is the only other living thing in your house, it's a really special relationship which I wanted CATHY to have.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

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.

I turn to books for a feeling of companionship: for somebody knowing what I have known.

For most of my childhood, even through college, there was a lot of feeling very alone. I loved TV, so when those very special episodes of anything came, or when certain characters reflected the world I lived in, I felt connected.

There are some people who make you feel less lonely.

I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.

Music is supposed to make you less lonely - that's the whole idea.

Far from 'rotting my brain,' as I was often told would happen, TV helped me feel less alone at a time when I spent so much time alone.

I think 'Lost Boy' is just really relatable. You can be any age from any place in life, and you're bound to feel lonely at some point.