Eric Jerome Dickey Quotes

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

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.

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.

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

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.

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

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

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.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

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

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.

I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store.

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.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

I'm perpetually lonely.

It's no fun being lonely.

I need specifically love, affection, people to touch me all the time. Because otherwise, I don't really - I don't cope very well. On 'Morgan,' everything is shot from the other side of the glass, so I was alone in a soundproof room watching everybody but being completely separate from whatever was going on.

I think people are isolated and really lonely.