Community Quote by David Grimm

“Alone was the loneliest place on earth”

— Rachel Hauck

We have never been more detached from one another, or lonelier. In a world consumed by ever more novel modes of socializing, we have…

— Stephen Marche

“And it was that when we ceased to depend on small-group gathering...based society to a more sedentary life... that an enormously significant repression... of…

— John Livingston, from "Rogue Primate: An Investigation Into Human Domestication

“We were born alone and we will die alone. But, while we are on this planet, we must accept and glorify our act of…

— Paulo Coelho

“Human beings have always been an unfinished species, a story in the middle, a succession of families, tribes, and societies in transition to new…

— Tony Hiss

“Society we must have; but let it be society, and not exchanging news or eating from the same dish. Is it society to sit…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The further human society drifts away from nature, the less we understand interdependence .

— Peter Senge

“The private realm of the household was the sphere where the necessities of life, of individual survival as well as of continuity of the…

— Hannah Arendt

We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.

— John Steinbeck

“If you met a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they had tried to blend…

— Jodi Picoult

“Because of the loneliness and despair that results from being an individual (i.e., a unique human being, rather than one of the herd, the…

— Marsha Sinetar

“...everybody alive is a lost and disastrous mess...the scattered moments of kinship we feel with others are, when reduced to their most basic elements,…

— Joel Derfner