Jane McGonigal Quotes

Myself, I suffer from loneliness. And I think we all feel alone. I'm looking for stories that help people deal with loneliness and help them if they are monsters: they don't have to undertake monstrous actions. And maybe they're not monsters.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

When you have kept yourself isolated, no one relates to you, you have no way of understanding actually who you are.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

Ever man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.

I've not been able to avoid periods of time where I felt super-lonely. Luckily, I have a side that is able to always see the glass as half-full.

No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice.

It always shocked me when I realized that I wasn’t the only person in the world who thought and felt such strange and awful things.

Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.