Not Alone Quotes

“It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.”
― Marilyn Monroe

“Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Timequake

“I stared at the nose I'd seen bleeding only hours before, the violet eyes that had been so filled with pain. "Why?" I asked.
He knew what I meant, and shrugged. "Because when the legends get written, I didn't want to be remembered for standing on the sidelines. I want my future offspring to know that I was there, and that I fought against her at the end, even if I couldn't do anything useful."
I blinked, this time not at the brightness of the sun.
"Because," he went on, his eyes locked with mine, "I didn't want you to fight alone. Or die alone."
And for a moment, I remembered that faerie who had died in our foyer, and how I'd told Tamlin the same thing. "Thank you," I said, my throat tight.
Rhys flashed a grin that didn't quite reach his eyes. " I doubt you'll be saying that when I take you to the Night Court.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“Come here, baby." And with my words, Echo leaned into me soft, pliant, broken. "You're not alone," I whispered into her hair as I cradled her in my arms. "You're not alone, because you have me." And I love you, more than you could ever know ”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

“To be alone with yourself is to be alone. To be in the company of others is to be alone together.

The only time you are not alone is when you forget yourself and reach out in love -- the lines of self blur, and just for a wild, flickering moment you experience the miracle of other.

And now you know the secret.”
― Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

“I think this is what we all want to hear: that we are not alone in hitting the bottom, and that it is possible to come out of that place courageous, beautiful, and strong.”
― Anna White, Mended: Thoughts on Life, Love, and Leaps of Faith

“Those who pass by us, do not go alone, and do not leave us alone; they leave a bit of themselves, and take a little of us.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“I never know what to say to that. I am actually alone in my head, and that's where 90 plus percent of my problems are.”
― Martha Wells, Network Effect

“Jess and Polly stood without speaking, letting the sounds of the garden resettle. A flock of tiny fairy wrens darted busily in and around the base of a nearby plum tree, crickets ticked in the long grass, and a sense of timelessness, of nature, older and more pervasive than anything human beings and their histories could generate, grew thick and warm around them.
"Shall we take a walk down together?" said Polly.
Jess noticed a new note of self-possession in her mother's voice. Summery air threaded across the back of her neck, and she felt a pull, suddenly, deep inside her. She didn't know whether it was being here, in this place, or the beautiful weather that evoked long childhood days in which the hours stretched away to be filled only with pleasure, or the fact that it was Christmas Eve, or that her mother was standing here with her, solid and present in a way she hadn't been before, so that Jess was seeing her as if for the first time. But she felt a sensation in her chest that was quite the opposite of loneliness.
"Are you with me?" Polly was searching Jess's face, waiting for an answer.
Jess gave a nod and smiled. "I am.”
― Kate Morton, Homecoming

“Every time I try to process her death, it only makes it worse. Grief's like leftovers that way. Like you made this four-course meal out of your love, but they only got to eat one little bite. So now you're stuck with all this food you can't bear to throw away, and all you can do is shove it in the back of the fridge to rot, or make yourself sick trying to binge it on your own."
"Or maybe," Kostya said gently, "you could invite someone else to dinner. Someone hungry.”
― Daria Lavelle, Aftertaste

“He picked up the small painting of the frozen forest and examined it again. 'I've had many lovers,' he admitted. 'Females of noble birth, warriors, princesses...' Rage hit me, low and deep in the gut at the thought of them- rage at their titles, their undoubtedly good looks, at their closeness to him. 'But they never understood. What it was like, what it is like, for me to care for my people, my lands. What scars are still there, what the bad days feel like.' That wrathful jealousy faded away like morning dew as he smiled at my painting. 'This reminds me of it.'

'Of what?' I breathed.

He lowered the painting, looking right at me, right into me. 'That I'm not alone.'

I didn't lock my bedroom door that night.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“I forgot the city around us as he met my eyes, lips hovering over my skin, and murmured, 'We will keep planning for the future, war or no war. I will keep planning for our future.'

My throat burned and I nodded.

'We deserve to be happy,' he said, his eyes sparkling enough to tell me what he recalled the words I'd given him on the town house roof after the attack. 'And I will fight with everything I have to ensure it.'

'We will fight,' I said hoarsely. 'Not just you- not anymore.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Wings and Ruin

“I stared at the nose I'd seen bleeding only hours before, the violet eyes that had been so filled with pain. 'Why?' I asked.

He knew what I meant, and shrugged. 'Because when the legends get written, I didn't want to be remembered for standing on the side-lines. I want my future offspring to know that I was there, and that I fought against her at the end, even if I couldn't do anything useful.'

I blinked, this time not at the brightness of the sun.

'Because,' he went on, his eyes locked with mine, 'I didn't want you to fight alone. Or die alone.'

And for a moment, I remembered the faerie who had died in our foyer, and how I'd told Tamlin the same thing. 'Thank you,' I said, my throat tight.

Rhys flashed a grin that hadn't quite reached his eyes. 'I doubt you'll be saying that when I take you to the Night Court.'

I didn't bother to reply as I turned toward the view. The mountains went on and on, gleaming and shadowed and vast under the open, clear sky.

But nothing in my stirred- nothing catalogued the light and colours.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“Tonight- I felt you again. Through the bond. Did I get past your shields?'

'No,' he said, scanning the cobblestone streets below. 'This bond is... a living thing. An open channel between us, shaped by my powers, shaped... by what you needed when we made the bargain.'

'I needed not to be dead when I agreed.'

'You needed not to be alone.'

Our eyes met. It was too dark to read whatever was in his gaze. I was the one who looked away first.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“You needed not to be alone.

But what about him? Fifty years he'd been separated from his friends, his family...

I said, 'You let Amarantha and the entire world think you rule and delight in a Court of Nightmares. It's all a front- to keep what matters most safe.'

The city lights gilded his face. 'I love my people, and my family. Do not think I wouldn't become a monster to keep them protected.'

'You already did that Under the Mountain.' The words were out before I could stop them.

The wind rustled his hair. 'And I suspect I'll have to do it again soon enough.'

'What was the cost?' I dared ask. 'Of keeping this place secret and free?'

He shot straight down, wings beating to keep us smooth as we landed on the roof of the town house. I made to step away, but he gripped my chin. 'You know the cost already.'

Amarantha's whore.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Mist and Fury

“And if you cannot find your way out of the darkness I will sit there with you and show you the stars.”
― N.R. Hart

“Life could not be avoided. Death comes for everyone. But that did not mean one could not be healed. That did not mean one could not be saved.”
― Ryka Aoki, Light from Uncommon Stars

“Because the future that lay before her would indeed be one of unity and peace, starting here, with those she loved. Anything they built on this foundation could only be good and true and right.
It could only be the stuff of dreams.”
― Sara Raasch, A Sword In Slumber

“Life in shambles is not the end of life. Sometimes things have to fall apart before they can fall into place.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, These Words Pour Like Rain

“I had beaten her until now, fairly or not, and I would not feel alone when I died. I would not die alone. It was all I could ask for.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“There’s an oblique otherness out there and through the power of her thoughts- I am momentarily seen and felt.”
― Kristy McGinnis, Motion of Intervals

“my anxiety began to devour me.”
― Charlotte Amelia Poe, How to Be Autistic

“Today wasn't the first time that Jasmine had sensed something supernatural within the palace. With so many storied figures having lived and died between these walls over the past centuries, it was only fitting that they would make their presence felt. She recognized them in the strange ring of light that sometimes skimmed across a sculpture of one of her ancestors in the Hall of Monarchs, or when her pet tiger, Rajah, would suddenly look up and growl at thin air--- as if seeing something that shouldn't be there. Eerie as it was, she had always found it strangely comforting to live with ghosts in her midst. It meant that even in her solitary childhood, she had never been alone.”
― Alexandra Monir, Realm of Wonders

“Snow White had long ceased to feel self-conscious about talking to animals. They'd always taken to her, even in the years before her father died. And afterward, when everything changed, it was the animals who'd saved her from despair in the face of the Queen's cruelty. Their love had convinced Snow White that she was indeed worth loving, and their joy had convinced her there was happiness yet to be found in the world. It was with the strength they lent her that Snow White had chosen joy over bitterness, and their constant companionship kept her on that path.”
― Elizabeth Lim, A Twisted Tale Anthology

“You do not have to do any of this alone,' ...”
― Carissa Broadbent, Six Scorched Roses

“Knowing Mary has gone through the same thing makes me feel less alone with my pain.”
― Annie Lord, Notes on Heartbreak

“This time she didn't fight it; she let herself fall. She could now. She had help. She wasn't alone.”
― Andrea Schwagerl, The Project

“When Terlu had woken alone in the cold snow, she hadn't expected to be a part of a full-out Winter Feast celebration the very same season. She hadn't expected any of what had happened. She supposed that was why today mattered so much to her: it was a day to celebrate the improbable light that now burned in the implacable darkness.”
― Sarah Beth Durst, The Enchanted Greenhouse

“I'm used to being invisible these days. But I couldn't get what she'd said out of my head, about ordinary people doing extraordinary things." A sigh. "Made me miss being young, I suppose. That kind of energy, that sense that I could just do anything. But being old doesn't mean I can't enjoy things. Try to get the most out of life.”
― Sarah Chamberlain, Love Walked In