Paullina Simons Quotes

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Sitting up all night would be pointless if somebody you loved wasn't sitting up with you, picking out music to play and helping you kill the bourbon. Walking by yourself in the rain is for college kids who think loneliness makes poets.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to be close to someone. More than anything, all I have ever wanted is to feel as if i wasn't alone.

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

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.

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

Wherever we are, it is our friends that make our world.

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

One's friends are that part of the human race with which one can be human.

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

Total intimacy is a myth; that said, a particular kind of loneliness can be both beautiful and fruitful.

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.

Everyone's been lonely at some point and in need of a friend.

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?