Gustave Flaubert Quotes

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

I've had days when I go in my bedroom for 24 hours at a time. I call them my Cilla Black days, and they're literally black days. It's like the old Boomtown Rats song 'I Don't Like Mondays.' You just want to shut the whole day down.

If people can't stand being alone, they have no choice but to die

I'm lonely! I'm bored!

If I'm in a rotten mood, I stay in and watch television.

We're all lonely, but I'd rather be lonely by myself than with a long list of duties and obligations. I think that's why people kill themselves, really.

I'm just sittin here trying not to be unhappy.

I don't know how to live good. I only know how to suffer.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

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.

I stay in my own little zone, and that's good for me.

I'm really honored that Bon Iver gives me a platform to do whatever I want, but there's only so much time you can spend digging through yourself before you become insular. I'm not in a hurry to go back to that temperature.

Going out and being nice to the world at large doesn't make me feel good, so I replace that with things, with technology that does get me excited and does get my brain spinning, until one day it stops spinning, and then you can bury me.

I've locked myself in my room and wanted to be on my own a lot in my career, but I don't do that anymore.

My go-to protective thing is isolation. It's turn off the phone, don't speak to anyone, lie in bed all day, and then maybe go out at night and do the same thing over again.

If you just kind of let yourself stay alone and be by yourself, the negative, it is just not going to help you.

I'd rather be alone than unhappy

I will always try to be happy. I don’t think people really understand the value of happiness until they know what it’s like to be in that very, very dark place. It’s not romantic. Not even a little.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community... Let him who is not in community beware of being alone... Each by itself has profound perils and pitfalls. One who wants fellowship without solitude plunges into the void of words and feelings, and the one who seeks solitude without fellowship perishes in the abyss of vanity, self-infatuation and despair.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

If originally it was not good for a man to be alone, it is much worse for a sick man to be so; he thinks too much of his distemper, and magnifies it.

There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes.

I have given up trying to be happy. It is no use and leads to nothing.

Once a week, I like to slip into a deep existential depression where I lose all my sense of oneness and self-worth.

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation.