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Quotes About Loneliness

he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became. That's why everyone hates each other nowadays, he reckoned. Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends.
~ Matt Haig
Loneliness isn't an absence of company. Loneliness is felt when we are lost. But we can be lost right in the middle of a crowd. There is nothing lonelier than being with people who aren't on your wavelength. The cure for loneliness isn't more people. The cure for loneliness is understanding who we are.
~ Matt Haig
Will my life be miraculously free from pain, despair, grief, heartbreak, hardship, loneliness, depression? No. But di I want to love? Yes. Yes. A thousand times, yes.
~ Matt Haig
he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became. 'That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends.
~ Matt Haig
The more 'success' you get, the easier it is to be disappointed by not getting things. The only difference is that now no one feels sorry for you.
~ Matt Haig
Toronto is the greatest and happiest city on earth, but despite that — maybe because of that — it made me unhappy, as I just lived in an apartment there, never seeing anyone. Once I went to watch the Blue Jays play baseball, but being surrounded by so many people who I knew I could never connect with was the thing that made me want to [leave].
~ Matt Haig
As she stared at the magazine cover - an image of a black hole - she realized that's what she was. A black hole. A dying star, collapsing in on itself
~ Matt Haig
She had loved no one, and no one had loved her back. She had been empty, her life had been empty, walking around, faking some kind of human normality like a sentient mannequin of despair. Just the bare bones of getting through.
~ Matt Haig
the thing that had left her vulnerable, really, was the absence of love.
~ Matt Haig
The cure for loneliness is understanding who we are.
~ Matt Haig
The Last Update That Nora Had Posted Before She Found Herself Between Life and Death I miss my cat. I'm tired.
~ Matt Haig
WE ARE ESSENTIALLY alone.
~ Matt Haig
he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became. 'That's why everyone hates each other nowadays,' he reckoned. 'Because they are overloaded with non-friend friends. Ever heard about Dunbar's number?
~ Matt Haig
And that had led to them talking about social media – he believed that the more people were connected on social media, the lonelier society became.
~ Matt Haig
What are you feeling?' 'Like I still want to die. I have wanted to die for quite a while. I have carefully calculated that the pain of me living as the bloody disaster that is myself is greater than the pain anyone else will feel if I were to die. In fact, I'm sure it would be a relief. I'm not useful to anyone.
~ Matt Haig
I have only been in love once in my life. I suppose that makes me a romantic, in a sense. The idea that you have one true love, that no one else will compare after they have gone. It's a sweet idea, but the reality is terror itself. To be faced with all those lonely years after. To exist when the point of you has gone.
~ Matt Haig
what is the point of living when you have no one to live for?
~ Matt Haig
Po?util sem se osamljenega. Ne depresivnega. Le tisti nedolo?ljivi najstniški ob?utek, da te nih?e ne razume. Seveda se tudi sam nisem razumel. Zaradi marsi?esa sem si delal skrbi … ves ?as me je nekaj skrbelo. Skrbelo me ni le tisto, kar bi me vetjetno moralo skrbeti: sama skrb. Trajalo je celih enajst let, preden sem naslovil to vprašanje.
~ Matt Haig
The lonely mind in the busy city yearns for connection because it thinks human-to-human connection is the point of everything.
~ Matt Haig
Because of some strange predictive homesickness that festered alongside a depression that told her, ultimately, she didn't deserve to be happy.
~ Matt Haig
A human is a real bipedal lifeform of mid-range intelligence, living a largely deluded existence on a small water-logged planet in a very lonely corner of the universe.
~ Matt Haig
And though she'd studied enough existential philosophy to believe loneliness was a fundamental part of being a human in an essentially meaningless universe, it was good to see him.
~ Matt Haig
Aunt Carlotta is a lonely woman. She's a lot older than me. She's really an old lady now. She's forty-two. Hardly anyone lives to be forty-two.
~ Matt Haig
quanto mais as pessoas estavam ligadas às redes sociais, mais solitária a sociedade se tornava.
~ Matt Haig