Company Quote by Jeffrey Eugenides

“And it was during this period that Madeleine fully understood how the lover's discourse was of an extreme solitude. The solitude was extreme because…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

To the lover the loved one always appears as solitary.

— Walter Benjamin

“The man he was now, the personality his friends knew, had begun to grow strong during adolescence, during the years when he was always…

— Willa Cather

“Day by day, the constant solitude drove him deeper inside himself, with only his thoughts for companions. Soon he might lose the capacity for…

— Sondra Allan Carr

“...but he felt the relief of being alone as well...the forgotten solitude which measures and verifies the strength of an affair, and which, being…

— Alan Hollinghurst

“Love is a joint experience between two persons—but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar…

— Carson McCullers

“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than…

— Thomas Mann

The love of solitude, when cultivated in the morn of life, elevates the mind to a noble independence, but to acquire the advantages which…

— Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the “blaze of passion” often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything…

— Boris Pasternak

It was disconcerting that being in love felt lonelier than lonelines.

— Emily Maguire

“He wondered seriously if love wasn't a feeling at all but a simple characterless state of shared isolation. If you were alone with a…

— E.L. Doctorow