Claudia Rankine Quotes

Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others.

Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling.

The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

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

I'm perpetually lonely.

True solidarity is only possible among the solitary.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality they only pass each other by.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

The story of 'Mr. Robot' is really about this guy who's lonely - who's alone and feels so disconnected from the world.

I think everyone is lonely whether you are in a good marriage or a bad marriage somewhere down the line you become lonely, and to get rid of that loneliness you have to try really hard.