Gena Showalter Quotes

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

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

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.

There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along.

Humans are almost always lonely.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.

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.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.

I'm perpetually lonely.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

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.

I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were

No one can endure his own solitude.