Carson McCullers Quotes

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.

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

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.

While loneliness has the potential to kill, connection has even more potential to heal.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

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.

I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

She was built for crowds. She has never come any closer to life than the dinner table.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Look, if I were alone in the world, I would have the right to choose despair, solitude and self-fulfillment. But I am not alone.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

Going through life solo isn't very exciting if you can't share it with somebody, you know?

The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.

When I was a child, there's one thing I said: 'I never want to be alone.' That's what I would say. I don't want to be 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.

It takes effort to not be lonely.

When people are with me, who can say I am alone.

Alone, I am drunk on my thoughts; in company, I am sober again.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

For was that all, she thought bleakly, that love ever was? Something that saved one from loneliness? A sort of insurance policy against not counting?