Stephen King Quotes

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

I think one needs a companion at some point in life.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

How we need another soul to cling to.

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

Going through life solo isn't very exciting if you can't share it with somebody, you know?

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

While loneliness has the potential to kill, connection has even more potential to heal.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

Man is not meant to live alone.

loneliness has its own needs!

the world is not a pleasant place to be without someone to hold and be held by.

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 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.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

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.

If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.