Hermann Hesse Quotes

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.

I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will.

Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.

I belong nowhere and to no one.

Here is the infallible test. Imagine yourself in a situation where you are alone, wholly alone on earth, and you are offered one of the two, books or men. I often hear men prizing their solitude but that is only because there are still men somewhere on earth even though in the far distance. I knew nothing of books when I came forth from the womb of my mother, and I shall die without books, with another human hand in my own. 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 being looking at me.

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

Strangers are an endangered species.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

You got all your friends, I got a TV set.

I'm not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn't have to be as lonely as it is.

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

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

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a group to make sure we are close. Everything is in transit. People are moving from place to place. You can have a neighbor you live next to for five years and never speak to, and nobody has a problem with that.

Nobody helps anybody.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

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

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.

I never spent much time with people my own age.

I have always written about characters who fall somewhere in the spectrum between solitary and totally alienated.

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.

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