Meg Wolitzer Quotes

Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

Everyone's been lonely at some point and in need of a friend.

Humans are almost always lonely.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

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.

(He) had not realized how much he needed this sweet, friendly sound. How much he needed someone to settle in next to him. He didn't know that he needed to not be so solitary until at last he wasn't. So many needs in one old dog.

You do not have to be alone. The world never inflicts loneliness upon us. That is something we choose or reject by ourselves.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

To a heart formed for friendship and affection the charms of solitude are very short-lived.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

I'm not crazy about having lots of time to myself. Whenever I come back from filming away, I immediately want to go and see my friends and my family and re-establish my life. I can fill time when I'm alone, but I love being around other people.

Social connection is such a basic feature of human experience that when we are deprived of it, we suffer.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

I'm on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

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.

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.