Framed Quote by Iris Murdoch

“Cities can be lonely places, and in admitting this we see that loneliness doesn't necessarily require physical solitude, but rather an absence or paucity…

— Olivia Laing

“A city uninhabited is different. Different from what a "normal" observer, straggling in the dark - the occasional dark - would see. It is…

— Thomas Pynchon

“Loneliness is collective; it is a city. As to how to inhabit it, there are no rules and nor is there any need to…

— Olivia Laing

Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow.

— Janet Fitch

There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you…

— Mohsin Hamid

It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Our equal and opposite needs for solitude and community constitute a great paradox. When it is torn apart, both of these life-giving states of…

— Parker J. Palmer

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

— Marie-Louise von Franz

It's paradoxical that where people are most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities of the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest...The…

— Robert M. Pirsig

It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some…

— Brendan Myers

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

— David Foster Wallace

“ A CHANGING SOCIETY What does today’s high incidence of social anxiety tell us about modern society? As we’ve seen, social anxiety is connected…

— Jonathan Berent