Yossi Ghinsberg Quotes

He who does not fill his world with phantoms remains alone.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.

Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.

I would advise you to write, my dear friend, because with your active nature, solitude is simply intolerable to you, and after some time your solitude would become perhaps attractive if you were to people it with creatures of your own fancy.

I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

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

As an only child, I may have been alone a lot, but I was never lonely. My invisible friends were my constant companions.

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

I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation.

It's all I have left in my life, caffeine and a poodle.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

Books support us in our solitude and keep us from being a burden to ourselves.

Experiencing those moments of being alone... is a very, very weird flooring and exposing position to be in when you're just not used to it... But I've never been lonely. And with my kids Mia and Joe that remains the case.

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

The muses visit when I'm lonely.

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

I need your help. I am injured, near death, and too weak to hike out of here. I am all alone. This is no joke. In the name of God, please remain to save me. I am out collecting berries close by and shall return this evening. Thank you, Chris McCandless.

I am ignoring you. In fact, I think you are a figment of my imagination.

Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.