Graham Joyce Quotes

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

When I was young as a teenager, that was the biggest mystery in the world to me: Why don't people connect?

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

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

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.

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

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

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

When you're alone you don't do much laughing.

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.

A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our actions as our only way of self-identifiction, then we become possessive and defensive and tend to look at our fellow human beings more as enemies to be kept at a distance than as friends with whom we share the gifts of life.

No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

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.

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.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

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

Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.