Zelda Fitzgerald Quotes

I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.

In junior high, I really wanted to be popular. Suddenly there were parties with boys, and I wanted to be part of that. There was a group of girls, and I wanted to be friends with them.

I just wanted to fit in as a teenager, but it was hopeless.

I just really like people, and being a freelancer can be lonely during the day, when you're at home trying to write anything you can. 'Flight Of The Conchords' was so wonderful because I had a family for two years.

I don't worry anymore about where's the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn't tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say.

What self-respecting teenage kid growing up in the U.S. hasn't played Truth or Dare? Before cell phones, we kids spent a lot of time in the same place and actually had to come up with our own entertainment. Truth or Dare was the game of choice to break the ice between the boys and the girls.

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

I didn't have an incredibly active social life as a teenager. I always wished it was a little bit more exciting than it was.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

Better be alone than in bad company.

If I'm among my boys or people I've grown up with, I can be immature.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

Going through life solo isn't very exciting if you can't share it with somebody, you know?

To be a member of something. To be a member of something helps get rid of that lonely feeling.

When you're a young kid, you've burst onto the scene, everyone want sort be your friend, come out with you, and you don't actually realise who wants to be there with you and who wants to be your friend.

At school, I could talk about what other kids were talking about. Maybe I wouldn't seem so strange if I connected with them on the level they were used to.

I hate being alone. That's why I like being with my friends: we've got energy; we're social as hell.

While loneliness has the potential to kill, connection has even more potential to heal.

When people are with me, who can say I am alone.

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

How could I fail to be a lone wolf, and an uncouth hermit, as I did not share one of its aims nor understand one of its pleasures?

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 think that like most girls in high school, I just mirrored what was around me.