Dorothy Day Quotes

I want to be around people, not crickets.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

Life is very tough for women. When you are a certain age, you are left alone at home with no one to share your life with.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

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.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

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.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.

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.

People living alone get used to loneliness.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.

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.

As much I can stay away from people, I remain happy.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

You can't separate the people from the places - although I sometimes like traveling in places where there are no people.

I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but, to tell you the truth, I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

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.

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.