Robert Wilson Quotes

When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.

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

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

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.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

People who abhor solitude may abhor company almost as much.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

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

Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

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

Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

I don't know if anyone has noticed but I only ever write about one thing: being alone. The fear of being alone, the desire to not be alone, the attempts we make to find our person, to keep our person, to convince our person to not leave us alone, the joy of being with our person and thus no longer alone, the devastation of being left alone. The need to hear the words: You are not alone.

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.

The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.

I've always had a huge fear of dying or becoming ill. The thing I'm most afraid of, though, is being alone, which I think a lot of performers fear. It's why we seek the limelight - so we're not alone, were adored. We're loved, so people want to be around us. The fear of being alone drives my life.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?