Harold Kushner Quotes

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

A man by himself is in bad company.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.

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?

The truth is, we value your company, for want of any other. We have been left so much to our own devices—after a while one welcomes the uncertainty of being left to other people's.

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

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

Even with one companion ecstasy is almost banished.

It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

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.

Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.

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.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

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

If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.

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

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

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

I'm perpetually lonely.

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.