Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

All of our unhappiness comes from our inability to be alone.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

If you can't be with yourself, you'll never learn to be with anyone else.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

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.

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

If we don't know how to be alone, we'll only know how to be lonely.

People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.

If you just kind of let yourself stay alone and be by yourself, the negative, it is just not going to help you.

It takes effort to not be lonely.

We are always in our own company.

Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

alone, adj. In bad company.

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 know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

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.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

Being alone is very difficult.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

A man by himself is in bad company.

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.