Liza Minnelli Quotes

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

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.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

I like melancholy. I like to pretend that I'm alone in the world and I'm just sort of abandoned.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

I don't like being alone.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Census figures be damned: If you choose to be alone, you're destined to spend a certain amount of time wondering why.

When everyone goes home, you're stuck with yourself.

As I've gotten older I've occasionally found myself nostalgic for earlier periods of solitude, though I realize that's also likely a false nostalgia, as I know there was nothing I wanted more during those periods than to not be alone, whatever that means.

When a man is extremely lonely, he starts discovering himself.

If you just kind of let yourself stay alone and be by yourself, the negative, it is just not going to help you.

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address that.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Being alone is very difficult.

A journal of the 'subjective' kind I have always thought foolish, as nurturing a morbid self -consciousness in the writer; and yet, alone so much as I am, it is well to have some sort of a ventilator from the interior.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

I had friends but I was spending a great deal of my time alone and for me that was vital because there's an awful lot you learn about yourself when you're alone.

When even the most strictly logical mind looks round and investigates the phenomena attending its own existence, perhaps the first fact to attract attention by its strongly marked prominence is the remarkable loneliness of man. He stands alone.

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

I'm perpetually lonely.

I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.