Miguel de Unamuno Quotes

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

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

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

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

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

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

I'm perpetually lonely.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

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

It's no fun being lonely.

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

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

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

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

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

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

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.

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.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

A man by himself is in bad company.

I don't like being alone.