Kristin Gore Quotes

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

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

For me, I value connection a lot, talking to people and connecting. Don't get me wrong: I enjoy having my own time, but I think it's really important to have that connection, so living on Mars would be a struggle for me.

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

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.

A man by himself is in bad company.

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

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

I don't care about a social life.

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.

It's no fun being lonely.

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

We behave as if being alone were a problem.

I think people are isolated and really lonely.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

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.

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.

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.

Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.

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.

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

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.