Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Quotes

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

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

In the '90s, I never socialised with other players.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

I'm a people person. I like being with people. So I like being a teacher, and so on.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

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?

Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

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

Men don't live well by themselves. They don't even live like people. They live like bears with furniture.

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

If your smart you can have lots of frends to talk to and you never get lonley by yourself all the time.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

I'm so happy to be around people. 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.

You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore

I love people. I hate to be by myself.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.

I'd always lived with people - my family, or had people living with me, because I'd never liked being on my own.

People think it's terribly sad to spend Christmas alone, but it's no sadder, really, than spending any other day alone, is it?

People think being alone is a luxury, but it's crucial: Whatever you're not down with about yourself gets loud and in your face.

We behave as if being alone were a problem.

Writing can be really lonely, and I find that bit difficult. I'd rather be around my people, getting ideas.