We want our freedom; we want to be ourselves, but we are also afraid to be by ourselves.

If we don't have each other, we go crazy with loneliness. When we do, we go crazy with togetherness.

Men want to be alone, but we don't wanna be by ourselves.

When, musing on companions gone,
We doubly feel ourselves alone.

Whenever human beings find themselves alone, as a natural reaction, they start looking for company.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

We are difficult to come by and a danger to ourselves.

After all, human beings are like that. When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone.

We must relearn to be alone.

We are so busy we hardly have time to look at the people we love, even in our own household, and to look at ourselves. Society is organized in a way that even when we have some leisure time, we don't know how to use it to get back in touch with ourselves. We have millions of ways to lose this precious time-we turn on the TV, or pick up the telephone, or start the car and go somewhere. We are not used to being with ourselves, and we act as if we don't like ourselves and are trying to escape from ourselves.

We barely have enough time to figure out who we are and then we become bitter and isolated as we age.

We need to feel a little bit lost somewhere, physically or intellectually, at least once a day.

We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.

We do need something to lift us out of ourselves. It's wrong to carry our pettinesses along to the stars."
"We will, though," he said. "We can't help it. How do you escape being what you are?