Sherry Turkle Quotes

If we don't teach kids how to be alone, they will end up only lonely.

I don't know that I spent any more time alone than any other kid, but being by myself never bothered me.

I always have been a private person. I like to be alone. When I was a little girl I used to listen to the radio and just be by myself.

I like to write about the solitary things people do. Humans seem to function best when they're alone.

Being alone with yourself is increasingly unpopular.

If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.

I take much pleasure in being alone but there is also a strange warm grace in not being alone.

It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.

I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

I need, absolutely, to be alone.

I've spent so much of my life travelling alone, so I keep things to myself.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

And I find - I'm 63, and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer, you better like being alone.

Remember we're all in this alone.

I feel calm when I'm on my own.

I never said, 'I want to be alone.' I only said, 'I want to be left alone.' There is all the difference.

A man by himself is in bad company.

I spend an awful lot of time by myself and enjoy that.

I need some isolation, it's necessary to me, that's just who I am. I need to be left alone.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

I enjoy my time alone.

I'd rather be by myself, really, than have, like, a million posse around me.

Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

But in the end, in the end one is alone. We are all of us alone. I mean I'm told these days we have to consider ourselves as being in society... but in the end one knows one is alone, that one lives at the heart of a solitude.