“Technology and its isolating effects Technology in the form of computers, cellphones, and the Internet have increased productivity, access to information, and… — Charles H. Elliott Copy Share Image
“That's what Jamie didn't understand: it was never just sex. Even the fastest, dirtiest, most impersonal screw was about more than sex.… — Emily Maguire Copy Share Image
“People think loneliness is absence. It isn't. It's a filling up, a rising, spilling tide that crashes into every gully and chasm… — Sheila Turner Johnston Copy Share Image
“Modern life seems set up so that we can avoid loneliness at all costs, but maybe it's worthwhile to face it occasionally.… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
In his or her own way, everyone I saw before me looked happy. Whether they were really happy or just looked it,… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
“She wondered how many towns like this existed all over the country?Bucolic scenery on the outside, with its own private soap operas,… — Jaime Allison Parker Copy Share Image
“We are all, in the last analysis, alone. And this basic state of solitude is not something we have any choice about.… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
There is a loneliness that can be rocked. Arms crossed, knees drawn up, holding, holding on, this motion, unlike a ship's, smooths… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
“Today the individual has become the highest form, and the greatest bane, of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem,… — Maggie Nelson Copy Share Image
It's been a very remarkable year, and I feel very blessed. I lived an isolated lifestyle before the media. I lived a… — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“I used to be fine in my loneliness but something or someone snapped me out of it and showed me company. What… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
Our society’s failure to recognize and care for the social and emotional well-being of our boys contributes to a nation of young… — Jennifer Siebel Newsom Copy Share Image
“From the late eighteenth century onwards, it is no longer from the practice of community but from being a wanderer that the… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
“We see much more of this loneliness now. It's paradoxical that that where people are the most closely crowded in the big… — Robert Pirsig Copy Share Image
“You want to know what I really learned? I learned that people don’t consider time alone as part of their life. Being… — Chuck Klosterman Copy Share Image
“Seven years ago, I joined a support group. The loneliness of my Clemlessness—privately, that’s what I called it—had become so acute that… — Julia Glass Copy Share Image
“The Christian community is not a spiritual sanatorium. The person who comes into a fellowship because he is running away from himself… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
“Sometimes it can be as brutally overwhelming as a tidal wave flooding every orifice, the suffocation, the pressure, the immensity of this… — Moonshine Noire Copy Share Image
You experience life alone, you can be as intimate with another as much as you like, but there has to be always… — Steve Toltz Copy Share Image
“Small, inquisitive and solitary, the only child of an only son, growing up in rented lodgings or hotel rooms, constantly on the… — Hilary Spurling Copy Share Image
Start announcing freedom from anything that’s holding you back. Freedom from addictions, freedom from loneliness, freedom from lack, freedom from struggle. You… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“The animals feel that this urgency is mutual. Their own suffering has made them aware of human suffering. More frequent contact with… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
For me it is essential to understand that everyone is alone. Not in the sense of loneliness, but rather in the sense… — Rineke Dijkstra Copy Share Image
“For many who are alone, because their partner has died or they have separated from them, a sudden, unfamiliar emptiness is the… — Janett Menzel Copy Share Image
We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
“It seems perverse that we can be more social than anyone would have thought possible when we are at our most anti-social,… — David Amerland Copy Share Image
“She had learnt a painful lesson, she thought – that as they die, the ones we love, we lose our witnesses, our… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
“For a long time now a hint of aversion had lain on everything he did and experienced, a shadow of impotence and… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
I look at pictures of you because I am afraid that you would notice me staring in real life. I looked at… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
“Red's world, you see, is a closed circle. Not that it matters. I know that I'm a closed circle, too, and it's… — Xiaolu Guo Copy Share Image
“Teddy once told me that it’s natural that we feel alone, and that’s because our hearts are different from others and we… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
This, she thought, isn’t just for today. It’s for everything. For the heartache that still felt like a punch in the gut… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
Aging has its own beauty. It is a beautiful stage for doing inner work. You have a chance to not be so… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
My plea...is a plea to save the children. Too many of them walk with pain and fear, in loneliness and despair. Children… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
Inside...I feel alone and been left out, full of sadness and loneliness, a feeling that slowly consuming my life and killing my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“loneliness can kill people—in different ways can actually make you die. Olive’s private view is that life depends on what she thinks… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
“The loneliness overwhelms you. It swallows you whole and won't let go. Terrified, of what society thinks, you keep it all inside.… — Shangelic Copy Share Image
