“It’s only when you’ve lost someone that you realize the nonsense of that
phrase “It’s a small world”. It isn’t. It’s a vast, devouring world, especially if you’re alone.”

— Clive Barker

Source: Books of Blood: Volume Two

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author, film director and visual artist 1952

L.J. Smith (1965) American author

“Small towns were terrible places to grow up with world-sized dreams—especially when those dreams were the only things you had left to hold onto.”

Robert Lynn Asprin (1946–2008) American science fiction and fantasy author

Source: Time Scout (1995), Chapter 2 (p. 38)

“Whatever world it is, whatever you’ve done there for better or worse, you always leave the same way.
Alone.”

Richard K. Morgan book Altered Carbon

Epilogue (p. 523)
Altered Carbon (2002)

“We are friends for life. When we’re together the years fall away. Isn’t that what matters? To have someone who can remember with you? To have someone who remembers how far you’ve come?”

Judy Blume (1938) American children's writer

“When you’re an introvert like me and you’ve been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It’s a real release.”

Lana Del Rey (1985) American singer-songwriter

— Lana Del Rey, “Interview by Ernest Baker,” Complex

“As small as a world as large as alone.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

"maggie and milly and molly and may" in Complete Poems: 1904-1962
Variant: may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone.
Context: milly befriended a stranded star
whose rays five languid fingers were;and molly was chased by a horrible thing
which raced sideways while blowing bubbles:and may came home with a smooth round stone
as small as a world and as large as alone for whatever we lose (like a you or a me)
it's always ourselves we find in the sea