Jonathan Coe Quotes

I want to be around people, not crickets.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

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.

There are hermit souls that live withdrawn In the place of their self-content; There are souls like stars that dwell apart, In a fellowless firmament; There are pioneer souls that blaze their paths Where highways never ran,-- But let me live by the side of the road, And be a friend to man.

Solitude is only a good idea if you have the right people along to share it.

You can be with other people, which is ideal, or you can be alone.

To wish to escape from solitude is cowardice. Friendship is not to be sought, not to be dreamed, not to be desired; it is to be exercised (it is a virtue).

Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

No one can live without friendship, because what would you do all day without friends?

I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others.

As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.

You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore

People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.

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.

I love people. I hate to be by myself.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.

I never spent much time with people my own age.

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

I don't go on lunch dates with friends. I hear about people having dinner parties, but I never do that. I'm not really human.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Friends are very important to me, and I have always had many of them. There are probably many reasons why this is so, but two seem to me more valid than any of the others I am a naturally friendly person, and I hate to be alone.