Best Books As Solitude Companions Quotes
Books As Solitude Companions
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Books as Companions
You'll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
How could you be alone, when you can find company in reading books?
With a book to read one is never alone. What was yesterday unknown is today known
People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.
Books hold most of the secrets of the world, most of the thoughts that men and women have had. And when you are reading a book, you and the author are alone together-just the two of you.
You're never alone with a book, are you? It's a dialogue.
You’ll never be alone if you’ve got a book.
I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book; they’re like old friends.
I never feel lonely if I’ve got a book...
You’re never alone with a book, are you? It’s a dialogue.
If one has a book, Mr. Boone, One is never alone. They will talk to you when you want to listen, and when you tire of what they are saying, you just close the book. It will be waiting for you when you come back to it.
You’re never lonely with a book.
Books Alleviating Loneliness
That's the good books can sometimes do: make one feel less alone.
The lonely fill up their lives with books. I don’t live in nature. I don’t live in culture. I don’t live in my relationships. I live in books. What good can all the books of the world be, penned by the loneliest men who ever lived?
Thank God for books, for validating your feelings, and letting you know you’re not alone.
Books give us new lives, loves, and the feeling we aren't alone.
For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone.
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.
Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.
The point of books is to combat loneliness.
The point of books was to combat loneliness.
David thought books existed to stop you from feeling lonely.
People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there’s nothing wrong with that.
No one with a book is ever alone, even in the darkest moments.
Books as a Personal Escape
We're all strangers connected by what we reveal, what we share, what we take away--our stories. I guess that's what I love about books--they are thin strands of humanity that tether us to one another for a small bit of time, that make us feel less alone or even more comfortable with our aloneness, if need be.
A very small class of books have nothing in common say that each admits us to a world of its own that seems to have been going on before we stumbled into it, but which, once found by the right reader, becomes indispensable to him.
...books everywhere piled up in heaps, the rare companions of a solitude not self-imposed but sought.
Worthy books Are not companions – they are solitudes: We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.
Blessed books—they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.
Leave Me Alone, I'm Reading: Finding and Losing Myself in Books
you can not fully read a book without being alone. But through this very solitude you become intimately involved with people whom you might never have met otherwise, either because they have been dead for centuries or because they spoke languages you cannot understand. And, nonetheless, they have become your closest friends, your wisest advisors, the wizards that hypnotize you, the lovers you have always dreamed of. -Antonio munoz molinas, "the power of the pen
If only my mother had a book to hold, she wouldn’t have looked so lonely. And maybe this was another reason why people read: not so they would feel less lonely, but so that other people would think they looked less lonely with a book in their hands and therefore not pity them and leave them alone.
Blessed books – they’re a place to be alone, and no one else can come in.
Books are written by the alone for the alone.
A book, to me, is almost sacrosanct: such an individual and private thing. The reader brings his or her own history and beliefs and concerns, and reads in solitude, creating each scene from his own imagination as he does.
A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.
Books Connecting Us
Your book goes places you may never go and helps people you may never meet
For many of our Greek friends a book is a final desperate attempt to fill the existential void when there is no one to talk to, nothing to do, no television to view, nothing in the street to watch and even the middle distance holds nothing to stare at. To be seen carrying a book in public, let alone reading one, is a mark of eccentricity or foreignness.
Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive) alone with a book the whole razzmatazz of prizes, banquets, television spectaculars, bestseller lists, even literature courses, editors and authors, are all worthless. Unless a book finds lovers among those solitary readers, it will not live . . . or live for long.
The power of a book lies in its power to turn a solitary act into a shared vision. As long as we have books, we are not alone.
As long as we have books, we are not alone.
Books are solitudes in which we meet.
The sharing of a book is a statement – a message of affection that is also an act of self-revelation. Join my club, it says. Come and sit beside me.
The most important things in our intimate lives can’t be discussed with strangers, except in books.
Don’t you think that’s the beauty of a book? It can take you places you can’t visit on your own, lets you meet people and see things you can’t in real life.
Books give us new lives, loves, and the feeling we aren’t alone.
Love, for me, is something I find in books. You’re never alone if you are surrounded by books.
Other
I was just getting to the good bit when I heard the sound of his footsteps approaching and wasn't sure whether I would rather be alone with him or alone to finish my book. Men come and go. A good book lasts forever.
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
Self help books are pointless. Here's something for you... Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, and self help books are from Uranus.
In short, this was a period in which the phrase ‘you’re never alone with a good book’ started to sound less like a promise and more like a threat.
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