Ellen Key Quotes

Discipline is not always internalized and actually can breed resentment among children.

I have always been very obsessed with time. Time's passage makes us all very vulnerable and because we all experience it in our own way, it can make us feel very alone.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.

Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.

Men don't even ask me out. I can't remember the last time I was asked out on a date, and I'm talking years here. I spend my life more and more alone.

I was a loner and never hung out with anyone. I never had any friends.

I am convinced that living in an enclave shapes the personality, and living alone shapes the personality too.

I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'

I never got to go to prom. I never went to regular school. I ate lunch by myself.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

Well, you don't get to do things that other children get to do, having friends and slumber parties and buddies. There were none of that for me. I didn't have friends when I was little. My brothers were my friends.

I spent a lot of time alone; I left school to be tutored. So, most of my companions were animals. It's as simple as that. I knew more animals than I did people.

I was a loner; I spent the first half of high school alone.

I felt very lonely when they were all there.

Moose had no friends that year. A lot of the time a moose would feel tired and lean against other moose. Only there wouldn't be moose there and the moose would fall.

Love is a punishment. We are punished for not having been strong enough to remain alone.

A bottle of wine was good company.

Alone is a fact, a condition where no one else is around. Lonely is how you feel about that.

alone, adj. In bad company.

Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.

When gentle persuasion [of children] falls on deaf ears, we resort to ridicule and rebuke. Then we return to threats and punishment. This is the modus operandi of a mutual frustration society.

Isolation offered its own form of companionship

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.

I was the girl who didn’t get invited to parties.