Honore de Balzac Quotes

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

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.

When everything is lonely I can be my best friend.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

I don't like being alone.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

I was born to be alone, and I always shall be; but now I want to be.

I can't be alone.

I don't need friends.

Solitude is not the same as loneliness. Solitude is a solitary boat floating in a sea of possible companions.

If we don't know how to be alone, we'll only know how to be lonely.

We behave as if being alone were a problem.

I think a large part of being human centers on the state of being alone, and we try to mitigate that in so many ways.

It takes effort to not be lonely.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

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

Solitude is un-American.

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.

Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.

I find running life quite hard, and I like sharing that. Obviously, the companionship, being loved and loving, is fantastic. But I don't feel that I couldn't live without a boyfriend or lover or husband.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

How do people who live utterly alone survive? There are so many things that won't open. I've got a few dresses in New York, and I can somehow get them on, but I can't get them off.

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.