Quotes currently Trending
![Nik Wallenda quote: "I'm one of those people who always tries to overachieve. I..."](/pic/118959/600x316/quotation-nik-wallenda-im-one-of-those-people-who-always-tries-to.jpg)
![Gabriel Garcia Marquez quote: "I've said that anyone who doesn't contradict himself is a..."](/pic/266253/600x316/quotation-gabriel-garcia-marquez-ive-said-that-anyone-who-doesnt.jpg)
![Mario Batali quote: "The passion of the Italian or the Italian-American population..."](/pic/25636/600x316/quotation-mario-batali-the-passion-of-the-italian-or-the-italian-american.jpg)
![Bess Truman quote: "A woman's place in public is to sit beside her husband, be..."](/pic/135465/600x316/quotation-bess-truman-a-womans-place-in-public-is-to-sit-beside-her.jpg)
So this blessing of loneliness was not really loneliness. Real loneliness was something unendurable. What one wanted when exhausted by the noise and impact of physical bodies was not no people but disembodied people; all those denizens of beloved books who could be taken to one's heart and put away again, in silence, and with no hurt feelings.
Elizabeth Goudge