Jay-Jay Okocha Quotes

I've been in Los Angeles for a while, and the kind of psychological connection that one makes to people, it just doesn't happen out here.

Isolation must precede true society.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

For whoever is lonely there is a tavern.

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.

When I married Paul, we lived in St John's Wood in London. We had nice next-door neighbours, but you don't know anyone else. Everyone lives in isolation.

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

I think isolation is one of the greatest problems, an ever-growing obstacle to political solidarity.

At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

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.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

Everyone at some point in their lives feels excluded and misunderstood.

Most people are enduring a marginalized isolation. One of the great obstacles to modern friendships is the 'religion of rush.' People are rushing all the time through time. Friendship takes time.

Isolation is a dream killer.

Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

You cannot isolate yourself from the crowd - even if you want to.

I think if you alienate people and just focus on your work then it just becomes lonely and it's not fun anymore.

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.

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

The rare few, who, early in life have rid themselves of the friendship of the many.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

There is always the danger that increased personal independence will decrease the social capacity of an individual. In making him more self-reliant, it may make him more self-sufficient.... It often makes an individual so insensitive in his relations to others as to develop an illusion of being really able to stand and act alone -- an unnamed form of insanity which is responsible for a large part of the remedial suffering of the world