Mireille Guiliano Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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

I think there's a fear of disconnect sometimes; communication is a huge issue for all of us, from adults to kids, as far as our face-to-face time and our ability to interact with each other without isolating itself to a phone. I think that has to be something that's very challenging.

What troubles me is the Internet and the electronic technology revolution. Shyness is fueled in part by so many people spending huge amounts of time alone, isolated on e-mail, in chat rooms, which reduces their face-to-face contact with other people.

We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.

We go into restaurants, and people aren't talking anymore. They're texting. While they are sitting at a restaurant with each other. So we're losing this intimacy that we need to have as human beings.

For most people, Twitter feels lonely.

In an odd sort of way, the computer and the Internet is the hermit's ideal form of communication. You don't have to see anyone. To send an email, you don't have to talk to anyone. You can just send it, and they'll read it on their own. The Internet has been really good for hermits.

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

Strangers are an endangered species.

If there's something I feel certain of, it is that we're not very aware of each other and that's largely because of social media.

I'm always on the phone because I'm usually not with the people I want to be with.

We can be incredibly disconnected in this day and age with computers and cell phones.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

Things like Facebook have made you feel as though you're connected to everybody. You've got a thousand friends on Facebook, but you don't actually talk to anybody. You're not close to anybody.

People simply don't make eye contact anymore.

We are in an age of technology where we sit in our little cubicles and we IM each other and Skype each other and never connect as human beings.

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

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.

People live too much of their lives on email or the Internet or text messages these days. We're losing all of our communication skills.

The more social media we have, the more we think we're connecting, yet we are really disconnecting from each other.

I think that we're reducing who we are as human beings to these cell phones and these devices; now we don't even want to pick up a telephone to talk - we just text.