Michelle Dean 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.

Pfft, I hate Christmas Day. It's for children and families. Not for people like me.

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.

Christmas lights may be the loneliest thing for me, especially if you mix them up with reindeers and sleighs. I feel alone. I feel isolated. I feel I do not belong.

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.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.

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

I don't mind being an only child; never have. I am lucky, though, that I have my friend Emily, who grew-up very close to me and so, there is someone I have shared memories with. I would miss that if I didn't have it, I think.

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.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

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

People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

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 can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone.

Far from 'rotting my brain,' as I was often told would happen, TV helped me feel less alone at a time when I spent so much time alone.

Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.