Henry Cloud Quotes

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.

The time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

I had to be alone for a little while, but I'm okay now." "All right. But next time, don't go where I can't find you.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

What good is sitting all alone in your room?

Being alone is very difficult.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

I'm perpetually lonely.

It's no fun being lonely.

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 like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

I am isolated as an artist, not as a person.

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

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

Far from 'rotting my brain,' as I was often told would happen, TV helped me feel less alone at a time when I spent so much time alone.

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.

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

It takes effort to not be lonely.

Be careful dear that you don’t end up as the queen of a lonely kingdom

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

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.

I'd rather be alone than unhappy

No one can be happy in eternal solitude.