Anya Taylor-Joy Quotes

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

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.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

Physical contact is a human necessity.

It's easy to isolate yourself when you're buried in work, or to rely only on work friends for empathy. And while your work friends will always 'get it' more than your life partner, they don't know how to comfort you like your partner does.

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.

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

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.

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?

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

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

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.

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

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

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

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.

If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful.

I've always been someone who needs someone with them to poke and annoy. I'm useless at being by myself.

Far from 'rotting my brain,' as I was often told would happen, TV helped me feel less alone at a time when I spent so much time alone.

I think people are isolated and really lonely.

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

Everyone's been lonely at some point and in need of a friend.

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.