Gary Chapman Quotes

The impact of solitary confinement can have a devastating consequence to the psychology of the people who are affected.

Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.

There is nothing worse than solitude. Solitude can help a man realize himself; but it destroys a woman

Loneliness is a huge issue for both individuals and for society. It's taken a long time for the issue to be treated seriously and for us to begin to understand the impact it can have.

Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.

For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

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.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

I don't need friends.

Those 18 months in solitary confinement... bruised my soul. If I had had a weapon, I would have fought my way out.

People who are more isolated than they want to be from others find that they are less happy, their health declines earlier in midlife, their brain functioning declines sooner, and they live shorter lives than people who are not lonely.

Solitude, seeming a sanctuary, proves a grave; a sepulchre in which the living lie, where all good qualities grow sick and die

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

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

Feeling someone else's anger is bad; being left alone is worse.

I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.

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.

Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.

Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one.

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.