Busy Philipps Quotes

I've actually read that isolation is the enemy, so why do that to myself?

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

I'm perpetually lonely.

I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.

If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful.

Far from 'rotting my brain,' as I was often told would happen, TV helped me feel less alone at a time when I spent so much time alone.

I think people are isolated and really lonely.

There's just an incredible amount of loneliness as a mother, all this solitude no one really speaks to.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

I feel such a sense of empowerment being a mom. But I do wonder: How do they/we do it all?

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

When you have little kids, you lose friends because you're so busy, but as they get older, you realise how important it is to have your girlfriends around.

We've all seen the mom who devotes all her time and attention to her child and is so hungry for adult interaction that as soon as she's around another adult, she's not paying attention anymore.

What people don't realize is that everybody needs support, one way or another.

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

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when women talk about things. I'm all about female empowerment. There's a lot of lonely, lost moms out there. Moms need to be encouraged to tell the truth. There's a lot of glamour mommy stuff. It's OK to get real.

Faced with stress, too many people feel they have nowhere to turn to, that they don't have access to the kind of friendships or communities where they can easily and openly share their problems and worries.

From the boardroom to the bedroom, we're connected 24/7, yet loneliness is at an all-time high. More people are reaching for mobile devices than for the hand of someone in need. Where did our humanity go?

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

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

People in this world of superficial communication find themselves isolated and lonely and have difficult in talking about personal things that really matter to them.