Companionship Quote by Doris Lessing

“For the first time in her life, she realized that loneliness was not a lack of company but of meaning—a lack of any genuine…

— Lindsay Jayne Ashford

“She talked about wanting to be a part of something, wanting to be desired, to be 'special', craving to be loved. She talked about…

— Cupcake Brown

“Loneliness wasn't just a state of mind, was it? It was tactile. She could feel it. It was a sixth sense, not in some…

— Tom Wolfe

“Until then I had always thought of loneliness as something negative—an absence of company, and, of course, something temporary... That day I had learned…

— John Wyndham

...she had come long ago to understand that loneliness was the curse of those who were free, even of all those who rose a…

— Louis Bromfield

“He thought in silence before answering. “I don’t think loneliness is a thing that can be borne: it’s so heavy and crushing for something…

— Kevin Hearne

But although she was with family and friends, she'd never felt more alone. She felt as if she'd lost a vital part of herself…

— Debbie Macomber

“...this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of…

— Elizabeth Goudge

She did not know the nature of her loneliness. The only words that named it were: This is not the world I expected.

— Ayn Rand

loneliness is a twilight moment by feelings, longing after something or someone you can not reach

— Istvan Molnar

Knowing the loneliness means to know one's own person within.

— Vikrant Parsai

She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.

— Colm Toibin