Aleister Crowley Quotes

Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.

Isolation is a dream killer.

I think people are isolated and really lonely.

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.

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

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.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

Humans are almost always lonely.

I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand. I was thinking to myself, 'There's five billion people here but we've never been more isolated.' The only result of the aggressive individualism we pursue is that you lose sight of your compassion and we go to bed at night thinking, 'Is this all there is?' because we don't feel fulfilled.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

Although I'm perceived as very optimistic and upbeat, it comes out of being the opposite of that - feeling isolated or lonely, looking for meaning and the kinds of things that ease that suffering in life, and finding them in large-scale social interaction, like theater and games.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

If you look at the literature of the 19th century, you get things like Kafka and Dostoevsky, who basically write about feeling bored and alienated. That's because we lost contact with the important things in life like work that you enjoy, or the garden, nature, your family and friends.

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

A man by himself is in bad company.

I don't like being alone.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.