Bud Abbott Quotes

I'm not crazy about having lots of time to myself. Whenever I come back from filming away, I immediately want to go and see my friends and my family and re-establish my life. I can fill time when I'm alone, but I love being around other people.

I don't like being alone.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

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. 'Flight Of The Conchords' was so wonderful because I had a family for two years.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

Going through life solo isn't very exciting if you can't share it with somebody, you know?

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.

I've always been someone who needs someone with them to poke and annoy. I'm useless at being by myself.

It takes effort to not be lonely.

When I'm bored, I hate being alone so there's always a friend at my place.

Isolation among older people is a massive problem, and my grandad used to come round for Sunday lunch every week for as long as I can remember.

Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

I need people to call me, I never remember to call anyone - otherwise I'll just sit in my house and listen to music all day.

It's a lot easier to find a friend on television than love.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

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 can't imagine dating a boy, meeting him only outside the home. What's a home and family for if it's not the center of one's life?

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?