Alberto Giacometti Quotes

Isolation is a dream killer.

I need to stay busy. Otherwise, I am like so many people, alone with my thoughts, and I can be my own worst enemy.

You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then?

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

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.

It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

I'm perpetually lonely.

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

I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.

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

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Everybody gets lonely.

Loneliness is always there, it's a phase that comes and goes and it is a very difficult phase.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

People who live in society have learnt how to see themselves, in mirrors, as they appear to their friends. I have no friends: is that why my flesh is so naked?

Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

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

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

The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.