Mitch Hedberg Quotes

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

I don't like being alone.

Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

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.

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

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.

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

Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

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.

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

If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

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

I'm perpetually lonely.

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

It's no fun being lonely.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

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

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.