John Steinbeck Quotes

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

I'm all for any place, any way, any media that can help people connect with somebody and not be lonely.

The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

At least I had that, one guy understood me.

I can understand companionship.

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

I like talking to anyone that will listen.

I really, really need community.

To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.

The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.

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.

It's a lot easier to find a friend on television than love.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store.

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.

What does it mean to not be alone? I've approached that question through music, technology, writing and other means.

Let us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.

I knew there were a lot of friends out there, and I wanted to be with them.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.

What are friends? Some people are nice. Some people aren't. There are some I'm fairly close with... we talk.

People are lonely. They want company and your book can provide them company and a little bit of hope. And there's nothing wrong with that.

I think the most important thing in life is relationships. I think that feeds us almost like food.

Friendship needs no words - it is solitude delivered from the anguish of loneliness.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.