Quotes About Loneliness

My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing their faces, trying to know their hearts. And it has left me thinking about solitude-the kind that refreshes and restores. Loneliness is failed solitude. To experience solitude you must be able to summon yourself by yourself; otherwise you will only know how to be lonely

We slip into thinking that always being connected is going to make us less lonely. But we are at risk because it is actually the reverse: If we are unable to be alone, we will be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they will only know how to be lonely. Yet

Loneliness is painful, emotionally and even physically, born from a "want of intimacy" when we need it most, in early childhood. Solitude—the capacity to be contentedly and constructively alone—is built from successful human connection at just that time.

If you don't learn how to be alone, you'll always be lonely, loneliness is failed solitude.

We are so accustomed to being always connected that being alone seems like a problem technology should solve. And

Connectivity becomes a craving.

Paul Tillich has a beautiful formulation: "Language . . . has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

We slip into thinking that always being connected is going to make us less lonely. But we are at risk because it is actually the reverse: If we are unable to be alone, we will be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they will only know how to be lonely

It was a very particular loneliness: knowing that people around you were also sad but that you couldn't be sad together.

We work so hard to build our online connections. We have so much faith in them. But we must take care that in the end we do not simply feel alone with our devices.

if you never teach your children how to be alone then they will only know how to be lonely for the rest of their lives.

if we don't have experience with solitude—and this is often the case today—we start to equate loneliness and solitude. This reflects the impoverishment of our experience. If we don't know the satisfactions of solitude, we only know the panic of loneliness.

We can't relate to others until we are comfortable with ourselves. That's a psychoanalytic first principle: If you don't teach your children to be alone, they'll only know how to be lonely.

Networked, we are together, but so lessened are our expectations of each other that we can feel utterly alone. And there is the risk that we come to see others as objects to be accessed— and only for the parts we find useful, comforting, or amusing.

Show me a person in my shoes who is looking for a robot, and I'll show you someone who is looking for a person and can't find one.

felt empty, just as they did when Dani climbed out of them

The patient dies alone among strangers: well-meaning, empathetic, determinedly committed to sustaining his life - but strangers nonetheless.

Sometimes I think we Americans are the loneliest people in the world. To be sure, we hunger for the power of affection, the self-acceptance that gives life. It is the oldest and strongest hunger in the world. But hungering is not enough.

Yaln?zd? ve yaln?zl???n karakterinin bir parças?, hiçbir zaman kurtulamayaca?? bir ÅŸey olduÄŸunu düÅŸünüyordu.

A wind began to blow and he shivered. With all his strength he tried to hold and to understand the mood that had come upon him. In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.

Ansía con todo su corazón acercarse a algún otro ser humano, tocar a alguien con las manos, que alguien le toque. Si prefiere que ese otro sea una mujer, es porque piensa que una mujer será amable y le comprenderá. Busca, ante todo, comprensión

I have come to this lonely place, and here is this other.

In that high place in the darkness the two oddly sensitive human atoms held each other tightly and waited. In the mind of each was the same thought. "I have come to this lonely place and here is this other," was the substance of the thing felt.

All men lead their lives behind a wall of misunderstanding they have themselves built and most men die in silence and unnoticed behind the walls. Now and then a man, cut off from his fellows by the peculiarities of his nature, becomes absorbed in doing something that is personal, useful and beautiful. Word of his activities is carried over the walls.