Mahershala Ali Quotes

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

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

It's no fun being lonely.

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

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely.

I understand being alone. I understand not liking it, wishing for something else.

I was alone more than most kids.

We can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone.

I created the OASIS because I never felt at home in the real world. I didn't know how to connect with the people there.

Nothing is quite as bad as being without privacy and lonely at the same time.

I had gotten so used to being alone, but never entirely used to it. Never used to it enough to stop wanting the alternative.

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.

All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. But now I'm not lonely any more.

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

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.

I'm surrounded by people and feel alone.

They can see their neighbors. Roosters and dogs can be heard from there. Still, they will age and die without visiting one another.

She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.

Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it.

It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution.

What sort of space is that which separates a man from his fellows and makes him solitary?