Eleanor Catton Quotes

She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.

Not only is there no question of solitude, but in the long run we may not choose our company.

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

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

Each way means loneliness -- and communion.

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

What a man misses mostly in heaven is 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.

I love people. I hate to be by myself.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

A man by himself is in bad company.

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.

Women and men in the crowd meet and mingle, Yet with itself every soul standeth single.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

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.

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people.

Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit down and share and laugh at. The Internet has made it so we don't have to sit together anymore. It's so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don't realize that that is killing us.

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.

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

What I learned early on, is that it's not really fun to do things alone.

It takes effort to not be lonely.