Loneliness Quote by Vivek Murthy

When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across the country,…

— Vivek Murthy

My journey to working on loneliness was certainly not an expected one or planned one.

— Vivek Murthy

I don't have to talk to a surgeon to play a surgeon, you know what I mean?

— Jane Lynch

I have a great surgeon that put me together.

— Tito Ortiz

I was thinking that surgeons had to be the happiest people on earth. To cut people up and get paid for it-that's happiness, I…

— Norman Mailer

I trained in internal medicine, and I expected most of my time would be spent on diabetes or heart disease or cancer. What I…

— Vivek Murthy

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

— Jennifer Grey

When I told my doctor I couldn't afford an operation, he offered to touch-up my X-rays.

— Henny Youngman

I chose surgery because I thought that perhaps this would make me more like the kind of person I wanted to be.

— Atul Gawande

for many people, loneliness was an experience of time. 'Not knowing what to do with yourself' was the way it was usually put.

— Louise Bernikow

It's important to me that talking about my experience not undermine those who choose differently. There can be a stigma for people who don't…

— Vivienne Ming

“Loneliness is the standard that separates life from death.”

— Sorin Cerin