Jules Verne Quotes

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

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.

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

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.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

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

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

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.

People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

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.

I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.

I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems.

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.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

The manager is by himself. He can't mingle with his players. I enjoyed my players, but I could not socialize with them so I spent a lot of time alone in my hotel room. Those four walls kind of close in on you.

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

What good is sitting all alone in your room?