Adriana Trigiani Quotes

I'm perpetually 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.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

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.

Writing can be a very solitary profession, and when deadlines are looming, it's tempting to glue myself to my desk, but I try to make sure I get out a few times a month with friends just so I don't forget what it means to be social.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Writing is an antidote for loneliness.

Everyone has their moments of solitude, difficulties, and vulnerability.

Far from 'rotting my brain,' as I was often told would happen, TV helped me feel less alone at a time when I spent so much time alone.

Myself, I suffer from loneliness. And I think we all feel alone. I'm looking for stories that help people deal with loneliness and help them if they are monsters: they don't have to undertake monstrous actions. And maybe they're not monsters.

It's really hard to do this life - to be a human being alone.

I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now." "All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.

I hate Christmas. Everything is designed for families, romance, warmth, emotion and presents, and if you have no boyfriend, no money, your mother is going out with a missing Portuguese criminal and your friends don't want to be your friend anymore, it makes you want to emigrate to a vicious Muslim regime, where at least all the women are treated like social outcasts. Anyway, I don't care. I am going to quietly read a book all weekend and listen to classical music.

This perpetual hurry of business and company ruins me in soul if not in body. More solitude and earlier hours!

There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better.

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

Writers seem to me to be people who need to retire from social life and do a lot of thinking about what's happened - almost to calm themselves.

One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.

Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.

I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety.

It's no fun being lonely.

During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.