Laurie Graham Quotes

I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.

Being alone is very difficult.

I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

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

It's no fun being lonely.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

Dementia is such a terrifying thing for all of us, and we are particularly bad at coping with old people in this country.

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

When I was a kid, dealing with trying to discover myself, I didn't have anybody to talk to. I didn't have any Internet and didn't have any friends. You felt very alone and very frightened.

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.

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

I used to isolate myself and be in my room by myself all the time.

He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

Solitude is one thing and loneliness is another.

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.

I like the idea of isolation, I like the idea of solitude. You can be connected and have a phone and still be lonely.

I don't really see many people... don't really go anywhere either.

I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.