Marian Seldes Quotes

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.'

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

Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.

Solitude is un-American.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

A man by himself is in bad company.

Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

I don't like being alone.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

You know, one of my fears about living alone so long is that you get used to doing everything your own way.

I've lived so deep under masks, my interior was built to satisfy me alone - I have lived almost 60 years alone, mentally, and quite content to have it so.

If you live in a family or have five roommates, there's some sort of reality check, but when you live alone, there's a lot more leeway for your fantasy life to be more and more a part of your everyday life.

It's not easy living alone but I've done it before.

When I lived alone in Chicago, I had a lot of loneliness issues.

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

Saying she doesn't mind being alone...that she's alright... There isn't a person alive who'd really feel that way!

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

We're all in this alone.

I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.