Suzanne Collins Quotes

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

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

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.

Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one.

Humans are almost always lonely.

There is no wilderness like a life without friends.

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.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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.

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.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

I'm perpetually lonely.

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

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

I make a genuine distinction between loneliness and aloneness. I know what each is like. There are times I'm lonely. But there are also many times when I need to be alone, when I don't want the feeling of someone else in the house other than the cats.

We can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone.

I've actually read that isolation is the enemy, so why do that to myself?

I have always been very interested in the idea of loneliness and the presumption that romantic relationships are supposed to rid you of that.

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

There are some nights when you just want to know there's someone else besides you in this wide world.

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.

(He) had not realized how much he needed this sweet, friendly sound. How much he needed someone to settle in next to him. He didn't know that he needed to not be so solitary until at last he wasn't. So many needs in one old dog.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.