Bootsy Collins Quotes

We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.

With technology, there is so much isolation with people now, that there are very few places where you can connect.

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

I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be.

There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you move away from where you started.

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

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.

We have to wonder whether digital technology, rather than making it easier to communicate, is actually doing the opposite. We now sit alone at a keyboard, firing off zeros and ones into the ether. Offices are silent.

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

As connected as we are with technology, it's also removed us from having to have human connection, made it more convenient to not be intimate.

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

I think people are isolated and really lonely.

We live in such an isolating time with technology and social media and I think that creates this feeling of having to connect, of having so many ways to connect but nothing's connecting.

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

They could read him, they could study him, they could pick him apart, but they couldn't laugh or be sad with him.

Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

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

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.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

I think, at the end of the day, I have an outsider's heart.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

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

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.