Clive Barker Quotes

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

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

At the end of the day, humans are social animals and we are at our best when we get to do things with others who appreciate and enjoy what we enjoy. It's what keeps us human.

I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can. 'Flight Of The Conchords' was so wonderful because I had a family for two years.

I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

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.

When I first started tweeting, I was just doing it because I was watching 'Breaking Bad' in my trailer and I was so scared by the assassinating cousins. And when people started responding to me, I realized it was like I wasn't watching it alone.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

Half the pleasure of solitude comes from having with us some friend to whom we can say how sweet solitude is.

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

I think a lot of guys you see - there seems to be this thing where you can have all the fun in the world, but in the end of the day, there's no one to share it with.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

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

I want to remind people of the great and profound joy that can be found in stories, and that stories can connect us to each other, and that reading together changes everybody involved.

Probably every person is some mixture of wanting to feel a sense of commonality and shared experience with others but also wanting to feel completely singular and unique.

Just sharing things that are either embarrassing or possibly relatable, searching for that laugh so that someone makes me feel less alone. Like, 'Oh, they laughed, so they get what I'm saying.

I remember in grade school having a group of friends and enjoying that sense of community, enjoying living in an imaginary world that wasn't just by yourself or your sibling but a whole group of people.

To be a member of something. To be a member of something helps get rid of that lonely feeling.

To me, just to be surrounded by others, even without a common purpose, is great fulfillment.

I love to share in a scene - I'd rather share than be alone.

I'm all for any place, any way, any media that can help people connect with somebody and not be lonely.

I never want to feel too far away from people. I think that's when you get in trouble.

I think everyone should definitely know they're not alone.

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