Lucy Dacus Quotes

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

I think the hardest thing about my life is that I've met so many people all over the world who I love, but they're not friends with each other.

There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.

Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a group to make sure we are close. Everything is in transit. People are moving from place to place. You can have a neighbor you live next to for five years and never speak to, and nobody has a problem with that.

I don't have a lot of friends.

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.

Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

Whenever you're out of town, no matter modern communications, you feel a little bit out of touch.

Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.

I don't particularly have a wide social circle.

The hardest thing about being at Sony was not the travel; it was being divorced from the public and private life I had in New York. Travelling as much as I did, while I didn't lose connection with my friends, I lost a sense of belonging.

Sometimes I felt glad not to be too close to people. I might have been happier, I suppose. On the other hand, I never had much luck with people over the years.

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.

I don't know how to put it, but I don't have many friends. All my friends circle was in Madras, and I lost touch with them. But I'm friends with all my directors, and they are very important for me.

I wasn't that close to any of my teammates. I didn't find anyone to become a best friend. We don't stay in touch. They're all over the country, but I do not want to stay in touch.

For those of us playing in a foreign league, it's always nice to spend a few days with family and friends who we don't get to see every day.

I've missed out on a lot of things, going out with friends.

I spent my 21st birthday chatting with my online friends because my husband had little interest in celebrating with me, and there was no other group of people I'd rather spend time with, even if they weren't there with me in person.

I don't have a lot of close friends.

I was always making new friends, then losing them.

If your loved ones are far away, and they're uploading pictures, you feel like that's enough: these loose strands through email, through social media, are going to supply this connection you have with that person. And I think that's keeping us isolated and lonely in a way that's very dangerous because we're unaware of it.

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

The most difficult part for me is feeling connected to the people that I love but always being on the go to different places.

Our friends - how distant, how mute, how seldom visited and little known. And I, too, am dim to my friends and unknown; a phantom, sometimes seen, often not. Life is a dream surely.