Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

Being alone is very difficult.

Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.

I'm perpetually lonely.

People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.

If I'm not working, I have a habit of becoming rather insular.

Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

Loneliness comes with life.

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

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.

Isolation is a dream killer.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

It's no fun being lonely.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

During the downtime on tour, I simply walk from room to room, staring into my computer.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company.