Vivek Murthy Quotes

As prevalent as loneliness is, many people don't recognize that people that they know may very well be suffering from loneliness. It's important for many reasons, one of which is that it has a profound impact on health.

Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.

The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

Even though loneliness affects so many of us, it has gotten scant research attention compared to related conditions like depression or anxiety.

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

I'm perpetually lonely.

If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful.

When I was Surgeon General, I spent a lot of time talking to people in living rooms and town halls all across the country, and one of the things I started to notice was that behind many of the stories of addiction, violence, depression and anxiety were threads of loneliness.

It turns out that people who are more socially connected to family, to friends, to community, are happier, they're physically healthier, and they live longer than people who are less well connected.

I think people are isolated and really lonely.

I trained in internal medicine, and I expected most of my time would be spent on diabetes or heart disease or cancer. What I didn't expect was that so many people I saw would be struggling with loneliness.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

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

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

People who are lonely and depressed are three to 10 times more likely to get sick and die prematurely than those who have a strong sense of love and community. I don't know any other single factor that affects our health - for better and for worse - to such a strong degree.

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

It's no fun being lonely.

The more choices we give patients affected by depression, the better we will serve them.

I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.

Isolation is the worst possible counselor.

As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.

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