Miranda July Quotes

I don't like being alone.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.

For me, I value connection a lot, talking to people and connecting. Don't get me wrong: I enjoy having my own time, but I think it's really important to have that connection, so living on Mars would be a struggle for me.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.

Sitting at home the way I do, I'd just love the hear from people. It'd be a great help in passing the time.

I like people.

I have days where the only words I say are to the person making my sandwich at the grocery store.

I have found that most of the things I want from living I must get from people.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is to the brain. If you're feeling abandoned by the world, interact with anyone you can.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

Technology is best when it brings people together.

Mothers and daughters can stay very connected during teenage years. In the middle of your life, you can become very alone. Even though you're connected deeply to other family members, lovers, husbands, friends.

Much unhappiness comes from walking alone. When there are several, it's somewhat different. I must get into the habit of listening to others, for what the others say concerns me, too.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

I think there's a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that's very challenging.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

As far as this business of solitary confinement goes, the most important thing for survival is communication with someone, even if it's only a wave or a wink, a tap on the wall, or to have a guy put his thumb up. It makes all the difference.

It takes effort to not be lonely.

In the short term if I feel loneliness, it's like any other biological signals. It's like hunger or thirst. It's alerting me that something that's critical for my survival is missing.

I always felt it was necessary to keep up some kind of communication with other people.