Vivek Murthy Quotes

I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.

One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.

I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

I am lonely. I clean up the house, put kids to bed and there I sit.

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

I have these wonderful homes, and no one to share them with.

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

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.

Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

You can be around 100 people and be completely alone. People don't realize what it's really like.

Lonely people, in talking to each other, can make each other lonelier.

With Charlie Brown, it was about loneliness and isolation. I always thought that the thing about Charlie Brown and those characters was the absence of the parents. Half the strip was about who wasn't there. The parents were never in the picture.

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

It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.

Fame doesn't end loneliness.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

Anyone would be lying if they said they didn't get lonely at times.

Even if you're independent, I think you get lonely.

If nobody needs me - and usually, these days, they don't - I'll fall asleep until around midnight. Then I go upstairs and work until 4 A.M., and that's when I go back to bed for good. It suits me.

We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true.