Jodi Picoult Quotes

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

I didn't relate well to people my age. Maybe the truth was that I didn't relate well to people, period. Even my mother, who I was closer to than anyone else on the planet, was never in harmony with me, never on exactly the same page. Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain.

They were not friends. They didn't know each other. It struck Tom like a horrible truth, true for all time, true for the people he had known in the past and for those he would know in the future: each had stood and would stand before him, and he would know time and time again that he would never know them, and the worst was that there would always be the illusion, for a time, that he did know them, and that he and they were completely in harmony and alike. For an instant the wordless shock of his realization seemed more than he could bear.

It's funny, because my last record was a lot about isolation and people living in separate worlds that other people can't even understand, which drug addiction is the perfect negative example of.

The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true.

We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.

I think people are isolated and really lonely.

When I was young as a teenager, that was the biggest mystery in the world to me: Why don't people connect?

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

It's strange, because it seems that society is kind of promoting or nurturing this kind of ostracized existence. People are kind of very much in their own little worlds.

There must be a lot of people in the world being wondered about by people who don't see them anymore.

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen. When it does at last dawn on a man that you really want to hear about his business, the look that comes over his face is something to see.

Strangers are an endangered species.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. You shouldn’t be alone. It’s killing you; it’s undermining you. All the time, every day, you should be somewhere with people.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.

I'm surrounded by people and feel alone.