Jason Schwartzman Quotes

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

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

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

I don't like being alone.

Being-alone is a deficient mode of being-with; its possibility is a proof for the latter.

All men's misfortunes spring from their hatred of being alone.

Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

We behave as if being alone were a problem.

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

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.

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 want to be around people, not crickets.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.

Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

A man by himself is in bad company.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

The older I grow, the more I find myself alone.