Anne Rice Quotes

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.

There are several factors in modern society that contribute to loneliness. One is that we are more mobile than we have been in decades past, which is fantastic in many respects, but also leads to us to move away from communities that we grew up with and got to know over time.

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

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.

There is only one way left to escape the alienation of present day society: to retreat ahead of it.

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

The smartphones and the computer separates everybody, makes you think that you don't need nobody else.

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

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

There's certainly a loss of connection with folks on the ground who I care for and love and I want to spend time with.

I think people are isolated and really lonely.

When I was young as a teenager, that was the biggest mystery in the world to me: Why don't people connect?

She watched the prairies the rivers, the towns slipping past at an untouchable distance below - and she noted that the sense of detachment one feels when looking at the earth from a plane was the same sense she felt when looking at people: only her distance from people seemed longer. - Dagny Taggart

We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

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

Strangers are an endangered species.

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?

Loneliness is the leprosy of the modern world.

All through the nineties I met people. Crowds of people. Met and met and met, until it seemed that people were born and hastily grew up, just to be met.

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

The American woman has not yet slipped into a cocoon, but she has tumbled down a rabbit hole into sudden isolation.

The Left, in a general sense, is very much atomized. We live in highly atomized societies. People are pretty much alone; it's you and your iPad.

He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable

I haven't found one place in the world yet where I could disappear.

I wish I had more friends, but people are such jerks. If you can just get most people to leave you alone, you're doing good. If you can find even one person you really like, you're lucky. And if that person can also stand you, you're really lucky.