Leonard Mlodinow Quotes

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 frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

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.

Everyone's been lonely at some point and in need of a friend.

But a man needs company.

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.

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 don't ever have time for friends or anything like that.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

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.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

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

I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.

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

Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

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

The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

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

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.