SO GOOD QUOTES

Category: LONELINESS & SOLITUDE

  • “Seeing a group of people eating ice cream is fine, but seeing one person alone eating soft serve is the sweetest thing in the world.”

    @oliviacraighead

  • The Holy Spirit is a true companion. We have fellowship with the Holy Spirit, and when we have fellowship with the Holy Spirit, we have fellowship with the Lord Jesus Christ. You can not say you are alone—you have the holy spirit with you. The one who lives with the Holy Spirit can never be lonely.

    –Fr. David Hanna

  • The most obvious one was a monastery; during those long days commemorating the birth of the Saviour, many people want to reflect–at least that was what I read in a special edition of Pilgrim magazine–and in that case solitude isn’t just normal, it’s even recommended; yes, it was the best solution,

    Serotonin: A Novel
    Michel Houellebecq

  • confessing to absolute loneliness isn’t that easy, even today–and I started thinking of different destinations.

    Serotonin: A Novel
    Michel Houellebecq

  • Aymeric had married within his circle, that’s what happens most often in the end, and it’s what gives the best results in principle, well, that’s what I’d heard anyway, but my problem is that I had no circle, no precise circle.

    Serotonin: A Novel
    Michel Houellebecq

  • My reality had become untenable, no human being could survive in such strict solitude;

    Serotonin: A Novel
    Michel Houellebecq

  • there was just the fact that I was alone, literally alone, and drew no pleasure from solitude or from the free working of my mind;

    Serotonin: A Novel
    Michel Houellebecq

  • Now it was clear not only that Camille lived alone, that she had no lovers, but also that she didn’t have many friends either; over those three weeks she didn’t have a single visitor. How had she ended up like that? How had we both ended up like that?

    Serotonin: A Novel
    Michel Houellebecq

  • My need for social relationships (if by that we mean relationships other than romantic relationships), which started very weak, had declined to nothing over the years. Was that normal? It’s true that humanity’s unpalatable ancestors lived in tribes of a few dozen individuals, about the size of a hamlet, and that that formula pertained for a long time–both among hunter-gatherers and among the first farming populations. But time had moved on since then; there had been the invention of the city and its natural corollary–loneliness.

    Serotonin: A Novel
    Michel Houellebecq

  • Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

    —Jodi Picoult