Charlie Kaufman Quotes

You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

I never get lonely; even as a child, I didn't.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

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

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

I have very few friends. I have a handful of close friends, and I have my family, and I haven't known life to be any happier.

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.

There's a lot of people desperately seeking to find 'the one,' and I think we should learn to be more at peace with ourselves.

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

I live by myself, so I derive a lot of joy from being with my friends and their families.

I don't tend to get lonely as there are so many things to do.

When I'm bored, I hate being alone so there's always a friend at my place.

It's not so," I said. "And how long do you think it will sustain you, feeling and seeing and touching and tasting, if there is no love? No one with you?

Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

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.

I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

He needed his solitude at times, but he wasn't a hermit. He did a lot of socializing. Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.