Edward Hoagland Quotes

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

It's no fun being lonely.

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.

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

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.

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

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

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

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

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.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful.

As prevalent as loneliness is, many people don't recognize that people that they know may very well be suffering from loneliness. It's important for many reasons, one of which is that it has a profound impact on health.

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.

Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

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.

Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.

Man was born to live with his fellow human beings. Separate him, isolate him, his character will go bad, a thousand ridiculous affects will invade his heart, extravagant thoughts will germinate in his brain, like thorns in an uncultivated land.

Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.

Befriending provides a valuable lifeline to many people who feel isolated in their communities often as a result of ill health or poverty. I would like to thank all those who volunteer as befrienders and I hope that your numbers will increase in coming years. Your kindness and hard work is, I know, very much appreciated by those you help.

A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.

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

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