Bee Wilson Quotes

New York is tough on lonely people.

Jesus but people got weird when they lived alone.

Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.

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

Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.

What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.

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

in the big city nobody has time to make friends. The big city is a big solitude.

I am alone with the masses.

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.

Of all the conditions we experience, solitude is perhaps the most misunderstood.

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.

There's no better way to dismantle a personality than to isolate it.

I've always felt like my nose is pressed to glass. I always feel a little bit like an outsider.

He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing.

The worst thing someone gets is isolated. Isolation is the darkest part of any condition.

I've been living alone for so long, everything about me’s private. I’m surprised anyone’s able to understand a word I say.

I'm surrounded by people and feel alone.

Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

Nothing gives a sadder sense of decay than this loss or suspension of the power to deal with unaccustomed things, and to keep up with the swiftness of the passing moment. [Speaking of self-posed isolation in old age.]

Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot of isolated individuals jiggling in a kind of self-hypnosis and dancing with others only to remind themselves that we are not completely alone in this world.