Edward Dahlberg 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?

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

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

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

Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.

I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.

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.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

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.

Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness.

Now I have a cat. Well, that's not quite accurate. A cat and I have each other.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.

Sometimes I get really lonely. Especially when I'm throwing a Frisbee.

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

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

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.

I was alone for five years. Having a love is a gigantic bonus in life, but I wasn't unhappy when I was single, either.

I don't like being alone.