Sudeep Quotes

I wouldn't like to grow old alone.

I really, really need community.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.

I have wonderful friends. I'm not just a lonely old lady.

I've actually read that isolation is the enemy, so why do that to myself?

I'm all for any place, any way, any media that can help people connect with somebody and not be lonely.

Friends die, friends become demented, friends quarrel, friends drift with old age into silence.

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

One of the things you realize about gettin older is that not everybody is goin to get older with you.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life.

After the age of 50 we begin to die little by little in the deaths of others.

How does one keep from "growing old inside"? Surely only in community. The only way to make friends with time is to stay friends with people.... Taking community seriously not only gives us the companionship we need, it also relieves us of the notion that we are indispensable.

So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

Old age is - a lot of crossed off names in an address book.

Will you still need me, will you still feed me, when I'm sixty-four?

We stand there, quiet. My questions all seem wrong: How did you get so old? Was it all at once, in a day, or did you peter out bit by bit? When did you stop having parties? Did everyone else get old too, or was it just you? Are other people still here, hiding in the palm trees or holding their breath underwater? When did you last swim your laps? Do your bones hurt? Did you know this was coming and hide that you knew, or did it ambush you from behind?

It is like taking the sun out of the world, to bereave human life of friendship.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

Old age: I fall asleep during the funerals of my friends.

Men find it more difficult than women to be alone. They function better with someone in their lives. Being married, they are rooted, so they feel safe to go and do what they want to do.