Vivek Murthy Quotes

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

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.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Going through life solo isn't very exciting if you can't share it with somebody, you know?

When people are with me, who can say I am alone.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

It's a lot easier to find a friend on television than love.

Humans are social beings, and we are happier, and better, when connected to others.

When I was a kid - 10, 11, 12, 13 - the thing I wanted most in the world was a best friend. I wanted to be important to people; to have people that understood me. I wanted to just be close to somebody.

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

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

I've gone through long periods without being with someone and got a bit lonely, but not for a while.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.

It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'

I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

When you have a lot of solitude, any living thing becomes a companion.

The solution to alone-ness is not more solitude, but companionship and community.

I've always been someone who needs someone with them to poke and annoy. I'm useless at being by myself.

I was in my early 30s, and I longed for real friendships and real relationships, and I started asking myself why I didn't have that. I had a couple of male friends, but every time I would hang out with them, it felt like there was something keeping us apart.

I'm all for any place, any way, any media that can help people connect with somebody and not be lonely.

I never want to feel too far away from people. I think that's when you get in trouble.