Donald Miller Quotes

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.

Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

I've led a very isolated existence since I was 6 years old. It's kind of been me and my mind.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Ever man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.

No man is an island, as they say. No. I've tried it. I've gone on retreats at various times in my life for three or four or five days. I was desperate to get out of there and talk to somebody. But I fly fish a lot, and I can only do that really by myself. I find I'm never lonesome when I'm on a river, far from it, but it's a lonely practice.

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.

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.

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 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.

We're not teaching our students the importance of relationships with other people: how you work with them, what the relational pathology consists of, how you examine your own conscience, how you examine the inner world, how you examine your dreams.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

I have to get out once a week and speak with people or I start thinking I'm the emperor of Abyssinia.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

When I was young as a teenager, that was the biggest mystery in the world to me: Why don't people connect?

When you're alone you don't do much laughing.

Normally seven minutes of another person's company was enough to give her a headache so she set things up to live as a recluse. She was perfectly content as long as people left her in peace. Unfortunately society was not very smart or understanding.

What do you care? You always liked loneliness better than you liked people. No offence liking yourself's the beginning of all love.

If you can't stand solitude, perhaps others find you boring as well.

Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness.

Solitude is dangerous to reason, without being favourable to virtue. Remember that the solitary mortal is certainly luxurious, probably superstitious, and possibly mad.

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?