I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.
Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.
Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.
Unprecedented financial pressures, and an ever-increasingly aggressive public culture, along with social, moral and spiritual fragmentation, are leading to lives being overwhelmed by stress, intolerable interior isolation and even quiet despair.
Everybody gets lonely.
A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.
The human heart has a sigh lonelier than the cry of the bittern.
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.
What defines loneliness is our internal comfort level.
The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.
Oh, I do get lonely, yes.
We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.
I was sometimes a bit lonely as a teenager. There was a cultural disconnect.
Remember that although the distinction can be difficult to draw, loneliness and solitude are different.
Loneliness is different than isolation and solitude. Loneliness is a subjective feeling where the connections we need are greater than the connections we have. In the gap, we experience loneliness. It's distinct from the objective state of isolation, which is determined by the number of people around you.
So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.
The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.
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.
It would be really wonderful if people connected to the loneliness of what it means to be a human being in the world today.
The surest sign of age is loneliness.
Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.
It's clear to me that anyone, anywhere, can experience loneliness, isolation, solitude, and estrangement; and most people probably do encounter these things at some point in their lives.
Eleanor Oliphant isn't me or anyone I know. Of course I've felt loneliness - everybody does - but Eleanor and her experiences are fictional.
She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone.
There's a tremendous sense of shame that people who are lonely feel. I say that as someone who felt ashamed of being lonely as a child and even at points during adulthood.
