Sigmund Freud Quotes

As much I can stay away from people, I remain happy.

I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude.

Only he knew that to be left alone is not always to be forsaken.

My mother said I was a little odd as a kid. I was alone a lot, but I didn't feel alone.

People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end.

Isolation is the one sure way to human happiness.

Yes, I do seek solitude, but I am never lonely.

We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

Just me and my nuts, that's all I got in this world.

But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.

I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

I just think that sometimes it is less hard to wake up feeling lonely when you are alone than to wake up feeling lonely when you are with someone else. Some people would be better off alone, but they feel they've got to get hold of someone to prove they're worthwhile.

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.

People like me prove that you can survive without romance, even though you end up a bit unbalanced and you tend to argue with your own reflection.

People call me a hermit. But I'm happy.

If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

Solitude is un-American.

I've always been a loner, and I've spent most of my life as a single person.

Solitude is independence.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.