Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

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.

It's when you get to 60 when everything starts to go pear-shaped. Everyone thinks that becoming an older guy is easy, but you never consider it fully. It comes as quite a shock.

The people I know who have retired, so many of them lose interest and die; they just become nobodies overnight.

I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

I've got too many of my friends that retired and went home and got on a rocking chair, and about a year and a half later, I'm always going to the cemetery.

I am scared of getting old. I am scared of being ill.

Isolation is a dream killer.

I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life.

I'm an only child, and so I over-rely on my friends to lend their support.

For me, I value connection a lot, talking to people and connecting. Don't get me wrong: I enjoy having my own time, but I think it's really important to have that connection, so living on Mars would be a struggle for me.

It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they're physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.

I've actually read that isolation is the enemy, so why do that to myself?

People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing.

But a man needs company.

Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.

Solitude well practiced will break the power of busyness, haste, isolation, & loneliness.

The trouble with me is that for a long time I have just been an I person. All people belong to a We except me. Not to belong to a We makes you too lonesome.

I'm so happy to be around people. I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can.

Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.

Humans are almost always lonely.

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