Asa Butterfield Quotes

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

I'm not crazy about having lots of time to myself. Whenever I come back from filming away, I immediately want to go and see my friends and my family and re-establish my life. I can fill time when I'm alone, but I love being around other people.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

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

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.

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

Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.

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.

I could go days, weeks, without talking to another human being.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

Going through life solo isn't very exciting if you can't share it with somebody, you know?

I've always been someone who needs someone with them to poke and annoy. I'm useless at being by myself.

I have always been very interested in the idea of loneliness and the presumption that romantic relationships are supposed to rid you of that.

Everyone's been lonely at some point and in need of a friend.

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.