Sherry Turkle Quotes

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

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

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.

I sometimes found myself more comfortable around my TV family than I did with my own parents and sister.

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

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

We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction.

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

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.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

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

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 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.

All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things.

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.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

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

I think a lot of kids feel alone and slightly isolated and in their own world.

I think, as people, we're isolating ourselves. We're talking to each other through our phones, arguing... those divisions freak me out.

I think people are isolated and really lonely.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

Why do we feel the need to disconnect in order to connect?