William McNamara Quotes

I spent a lot of time alone; I left school to be tutored. So, most of my companions were animals. It's as simple as that. I knew more animals than I did people.

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

It's not like I'm hanging out at shopping malls or going to celebrity golf tournaments. I'm so in my own little world. I got my dog, my music, my brother, a couple of friends.

I don't have too many friends. I have only a few people who I really love.

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.

You know how people say they're either like a cat or a dog? I feel like a cat. I just want to be alone. Isn't that weird? It's a lot to take in.

I am not looking for a friend; if I want a friend I'd buy a dog.

One cat in a house is a sign of loneliness.

When you are alone, you have all the time in the world to practice whistling like a bird. When there is no one in the world you can turn to, a horse or .even a lion may give you companionship. When you don't know if there is anyone in the world like you, you seek contact with something living however you can

If you're alone with nothing to do, the quality of your experience really plummets.

The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.

Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

It is said of a lonely man that he does not appreciate the life of society. This is like saying he hates hiking because he dislikes walking in thick forest on a dark night.

Consider well before you immerse yourself in solitude whether your own company will be good for you.

It is a terrible thing for an old woman to outlive her dogs.

I think that part of being human is being alone, and being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot of our friendships is that we require the people we love to take away that loneliness. and they really can't. And so, when we still feel lonely, even in the company of people we love, we become angry with them because they don't do what we think they're supposed to. Which is really something that they can't do for us.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.

Isolation, you know, carries the seeds of its own destruction because as times change, other things seep in.

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"

It's an awful thing to grow old by yourself. My wife hasn't had a birthday in seven years.

But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place reclaimed by the weather where a woman plays an organ to stop the wind's whining and an old man plays ball with a dog named Duke. I could tell you that I came back because I had promises to keep, but maybe it was because nobody asked me to stay.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.