Stephan Pastis Quotes

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

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

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

I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy routines.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

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.

As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference.

We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.

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.

loneliness has its own needs!

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.

Never having alone time is real tough on people.

I'm shy and can't for the life of me barge around and slap people on the back. I sit in a corner by myself and am tickled to death when someone comes over to talk to me.

I don't think anyone would care about my private life because I don't do anything. I'm at home with my dog.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

I'm always wearing Spanx, eating ice cream and feeling a bit lonely.

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.

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.

From the boardroom to the bedroom, we're connected 24/7, yet loneliness is at an all-time high. More people are reaching for mobile devices than for the hand of someone in need. Where did our humanity go?