Katherine Mansfield Quotes

I'm anti-social, and I don't have too many friends. I'm in my own world doing my own things - training in martial arts, dancing, or watching a Michael Jackson video.

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

As much I can stay away from people, I remain happy.

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.

I don't care about a social life.

I don't have anybody living around me who has much of a sense of what I do. That's exactly what I like.

I suppose we do live a pretty isolated life.

I don't tend to get lonely as there are so many things to do.

It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.

A multitude of people and yet solitude.

When you don’t have many friends and you don’t have a social life you’re kind of left looking at things, not doing things. There’s a weird freedom in not having people treat you like you’re part of society or where you have to fulfill social relationships.

What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

Be alone even when there's a million people around, because tomorrow it will be a different million people.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

We are all really alone. We're isolated in our own mind.

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

No man is an island, but some of us are long peninsulas.

Alone.'Twas her destiny to be ever surrounded by others, yet ever alone.

Personally, I'd rather grow old alone than in the company of anyone I've met so far. I don't experience myself as lonely, incomplete, or unfulfilled, but I don't talk about that much. It seems to piss people off--especially men. (Kinsey Millhone)

We walk alone in the world.