“For many people, the expression “disconnecting from the world” essentially means disconnecting from society—for this is the only world they know.” — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be… — Alberto Giacometti Copy Share Image
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A poem is all that's left of my lost loneliness... It is like a window that looks into a swimming pool... Or… — Chelsey Minnis Copy Share Image
When I look at my own work, I see love, loss, and loneliness. Part of it might be that I was an… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
Nonetheless, Scranton had travelled in space. He had known the loneliness of separation from all other human beings, he had gazed at… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
I am no good without you, Ginesse,” he said. “I spent a lifetime alone, but I never understood loneliness until I was… — Connie Brockway Copy Share Image
I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and… — Cornel West Copy Share Image
“First agriculture, and then industry, changed two fundamental things about the human experience. The accumulation of personal property allowed people to make… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their… — Sherry Turkle Copy Share Image
“There must be different kinds of loneliness, or at least different degrees of loneliness, but the most terrifying loneliness is not experienced… — Charles M. Schulz Copy Share Image
“He needed her so badly, to reassure himself of his own existence, that he never comprehended the desperation in her dazzling, permanent… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
“Forget so-called peer-pressure. It’s more like peer-hunger. No? We enter a spiritual puberty where we snap to the fact that the great… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
There was a loneliness because kids my age had video games, tennis. They traveled. They had beautiful clothes. I was wearing my… — Riccardo Tisci Copy Share Image
In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their… — John Irving Copy Share Image
O yes, everyone gets lonely some time or other. After all, if we look closer into ourselves, shall we not admit that… — Ama Ata Aidoo Copy Share Image
Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
As with many people, Charles, who could not talk, wrote with fullness. He set down his loneliness and his perplexities, and he… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“We must remember that loneliness is not the real enemy - alienation from ourselves is. We are never lonely because we have… — Katherine Woodward Thomas Copy Share Image
The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
The idea of the mystic solo, meditating away on his own, is only one path of yoga. Very early on, I chose… — Donovan Copy Share Image
“To be alone: icy, iron terror, foretaste of the grave, forerunner of unpitying death. Oh, whoever has been himself alone can never… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
I realize that I live on the bubble of insanity. I feel the weight of human suffering, loneliness and despair on me… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
I felt his hot tears and the loneliness of man and the sweetness of all men and the aching haunting beauty of… — John Fante Copy Share Image
There is a difference between solitude and isolation. One is connected and one isn't. Solitude replenishes, isolation diminishes. — Henry Cloud Copy Share Image
The most beautiful music in the world is your own heartbeat, it assures you that you will survive even when the whole… — InsaneInsomniac Copy Share Image
“How was it possible to be with someone and yet feel so utterly alone? How was it possible to be with someone… — Chris Manby Copy Share Image
“Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Humanity is not defined by the languages we speak or the flags we fly, but by the connections we forge through empathy… — Camellia Yang Copy Share Image
“worst kind of loneliness in the world is the isolation that comes from being misunderstood. It can make people lose their grasp… — Dan Brown Copy Share Image
If you write, and you are really alone (writing is a lonely thing), you learn to be alone without suffering. When you… — Alejandro Zambra Copy Share Image
The way I felt growing up, which was like an outcast - I was weird, I was a nerd, I read fantasy… — Sabaa Tahir Copy Share Image
You can never underestimate that moment of somebody explaining your life to you, something you thought was inexplicable, through music. That was… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
I'm just a believer in keeping all of the creative brain cells moving and working even when you're not working because the… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
I am taking this in, slowly. Taking it into my body. This grief, how slow. The body is to realize, you are… — Donna Masini Slowly Copy Share Image
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Perhaps loneliness had nothing to do with place or circumstance; perhaps it was in you; yourself. Perhaps, wherever you were, you took… — Mary Stewart Copy Share Image
“...and in the gloaming of her dwindling strength there yawned a loneliness so total it was beyond death, a loneliness that obliterated… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
Truth is... girls lie as much a boys, boys get hurt as much as girls. At some point we all experience the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Negative emotions like loneliness, envy, and guilt have an important role to play in a happy life; they're big, flashing signs that… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
