Mercedes Lackey Quotes

In a big city like L.A. you can spend a lot of time surrounded by hundreds of people yet you feel like an alien or a ghost or something.

New York is tough on lonely people.

The city can be the loneliest place of all.

I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.

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

There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you.

I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.

In cities, people go to work and all walk there together, like some arterial flow. And there's a certain desolation about it, an alienation that we all experience.

I'm not crazy about having lots of time to myself. Whenever I come back from filming away, I immediately want to go and see my friends and my family and re-establish my life. I can fill time when I'm alone, but I love being around other people.

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.

In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

L.A. can be a tough city, very lonely. A lot of people move here to pursue a dream, and that's understandable. But sometimes it's hard to find genuine friends.

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.

I hated London; I was so lonely.

We are a most solitary people, and we live, repelled by one another, in the gray, outcast cities of Cain.

New York City is a place where you can lock yourself up in your little studio apartment, and not go outside at all, and not feel in the slightest guilty about it.

In my case, I was stuck there for quite a while. New York is large enough to be a very abstract city, so nobody cares.

A great city is a great solitude.

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.

I would never be able to live in a huge city. I'd feel like one of 100,000 people doing the same thing.

The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.

In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbors.

There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.

Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one.