Louie Anderson Quotes

I have wonderful friends. I'm not just a lonely old lady.

Deep down, the young are lonelier than the old.

I have never wanted to live to be old, so old I'd run out of friends or money.

Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them.

Where are all our friends?

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age.

They say the first thing to go is your legs, then it's your reflexes, then it's your friends.

I wouldn't like to grow old alone.

For me, I value connection a lot, talking to people and connecting. Don't get me wrong: I enjoy having my own time, but I think it's really important to have that connection, so living on Mars would be a struggle for me.

It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they're physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.

Any woman will tell you after the menopause, nobody whistle at her, well - that's just the beginning. As you get older people don't want you at their parties, we all are prejudiced about old people.

I'm very introverted. Easily a few days could go by where I would not really leave the house or talk to anybody other than my partner.

As we grow up, either we lose people or have a lot of them around us. I have seen many people who are isolated in their old age.

I try not to spend too much time online but at the same time if I didn't, I'd be isolated.

Isolation among older people is a massive problem, and my grandad used to come round for Sunday lunch every week for as long as I can remember.

For in all the world there are no people so piteous and forlorn as those who are forced to eat the bitter bread of dependency in their old age, and find how steep are the stairs of another man's house. Wherever they go they know themselves unwelcome. Wherever they are, they feel themselves a burden. There is no humiliation of the spirit they are not forced to endure. Their hearts are scarred all over with the stabs from cruel and callous speeches.

I've got more friends than I've ever had in my life at the age of 39 - although given that I didn't have any friends until the age of 27, it doesn't say much - because I found the internet.

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.

After a certain age, you felt a need not to be alone. It grew stronger, like a radio frequency, until finally it was so powerful that you were forced to do something about it.

It would be so great to have someone my own age to talk to, even if it was just about books.

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.

I have always had plenty of friends, and now at age sixty, I face four walls as a common prisoner.

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.

No one should be alone in their old age, he thought.

At eighty-two, I feel like a twenty-year-old, but, unfortunately, there's never one around.