Social Disconnection Quotes

Every single person in my life and every relationship I have is distant because all I do is music.

Loneliness is one thing, solitude another.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Conservatives have rightly attacked rap for its misogyny, violence and over-the-top vulgarity. But it is important to remember that this music is a fairly accurate message from a part of society where human connections are fractured and impossible, so fraught with disappointments and pain that only an assault on human feeling itself can assuage.

I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

Sometimes, however, this sense of isolation, like acid spilling out of a bottle, can unconsciously eat away at a person’s heart and dissolve it.

The Vietnam War was happening, but Lubbock was... They put a pinch on it.

I always felt like the 'outsider' kind of kid.

Technology celebrates connectedness, but encourages retreat.

It just seems like a religion that is perfect for people who feel like they need a grounding, who feels that the world has run off on them. I've discussed this with Scientologists, and they don't disagree. So, for a certain type of person, that's great.

Something was wrong with a world where people came and went so easily.

Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.

I believe I'm one of the loneliest people in the world.

Alone in a world, With millions of souls Walking in circles Trapped in their dreams unhealthy, unclean walking in circles, now do not disturb scream in silence everyone's sleeping

I've always felt like my nose is pressed to glass. I always feel a little bit like an outsider.

Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

And it's amazing how much noise people ignoring each other can make.

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was.

A disquieting loneliness came into my life, but it induced no hunger for friends of longer acquaintance: they seemed now like a salt-free, sugarless diet.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

I don't have any social life or anything.

Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.

I was born and raised in St. Louis, and this little town, eight blocks away, place no one ever heard of, a black man there commands the attention of the world for months? That ain't my world.

I diagnosed my loneliness as premature empty nest syndrome.