Janet Flanner Quotes

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

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.

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

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

I never want to feel too far away from people. I think that's when you get in trouble.

While loneliness has the potential to kill, connection has even more potential to heal.

You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.

Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

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

No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?

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.

I love people. I hate to be by myself.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

How we need another soul to cling to.

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.

Nowadays, I know the true reason I read is to feel less alone, to make a connection with a consciousness other than my own.

I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.