Words worth keeping
34 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.
My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right.
Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.
Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.
All great and precious things are lonely.
I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.
Solitude is fine but you need someone to tell that solitude is fine.
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company.
All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart.
Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?
The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.
Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
I’m here. I love you. I don’t care if you need to stay up crying all night long, I will stay with you. If you need the medication again, go ahead and take it—I will love you through that, as well. If you don’t need the medication, I will love you, too. There’s nothing you can ever do to lose my love. I will protect you until you die, and after your death I will still protect you. I am stronger than Depression and I am braver than Loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.
Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.