Joseph Heller Quotes

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

I'm perpetually lonely.

It's no fun being lonely.

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

Isolation is a dream killer.

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

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.

I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

I understand being alone. I understand not liking it, wishing for something else.

Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say.

Loneliness is always there, it's a phase that comes and goes and it is a very difficult phase.

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

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

I've certainly felt alone a lot of my life.

A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.

In certain areas of my life, I actively seek out solitude. Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person's heart and dissolve it. You could see it, too, as a kind of double-edged sword. It protects me, but at the same time steadily cuts away at me from the inside.

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then?

I feel the madness creeping slowly. Loved by many I'm still lonely.

I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.