Alexis de Tocqueville Quotes

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.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays.

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

I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone.

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

We live in a time where there's an alienation factor. There's a certain disconnection. We don't have any real sense of community anymore.

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

Individualism, one of the great achievements of Western civilization, is now accompanied more and more by such phenomena as fragmentation, solitude, egocentricity and the disintegration of solidarity

As soon as you're locking doors, you're narrowing your circle. And your circle gets smaller and smaller until it's finally just yourself and your buddy and you've got no one to party with.

The story of 'Mr. Robot' is really about this guy who's lonely - who's alone and feels so disconnected from the world.

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people around us.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life.

We’re always alone. You can be in a crowded room and still feel the bite of loneliness. Personally, I find that it bites deepest whenever others are around.

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.

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.

I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.

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

From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone.