loneliness on Noise

Solitude is an opportunity to interrupt this cycle by turning off the noise and stimulation of our lives so that we can hear our loneliness and our longing calling us deeper into the only relationship...

In his novel, The Pale King , David Foster Wallace discusses the issue of boredom, or, as he puts it, dullness: . . . Maybe it’s because dullness is intrinsically painful; maybe that’s where ph...

Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to you.

In an interview with MIT psychologist Sherry Turkle, Megan Garber asks what makes in-person conversation unique, compared to all the other ways we communicate these days: Conversations, as they tend...

In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable, we learn that ultimately in this world there is no finished symphony.

[Alienation is] “the state of mind that can find a social order remote, incomprehensible, or fraudulent.

Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.

Loneliness is inner emptiness. Solitude is inner fulfillment.

“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”

Deep within there is a glorious and terrible empty space – loneliness. It is out of sight, pushing us to our best and to our worst. Behind every effort to make a friend – Behind ambition – Behind prid...

Loneliness comes over us sometimes as a sudden tide. It is one of the terms of our humanness, and, in a sense, therefore, incurable. Yet I have found peace in my loneliest times not only through accep...

The greatest dis-ease facing humanity right now is our profound and painful sense of disconnection.

Sometimes we become so lonely, we'll do whatever we can to have some social interaction. Vulgar and with a quick wit, Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) was a significant short-story writer and social cri...

The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It's the loneliness of it. Memories need to be shared.

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority, Obtrude no more.

Should his heart break and the grief pour out, it would flow over the whole earth, it seems, and yet, no one sees it.

The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.

A great fire burns within me, but no one stops to warm themselves at it, and passers-by only see a wisp of smoke”

Practically every human being . . . has experienced that strange inner gnawing, that mental hunger, that unsettling unrest that makes us say, ‘I feel lonely.’ Loneliness is one of the most universal e...

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neigh...

Administrators of one of the largest hospitals in America cite loneliness as a major reason for overcrowded emergency rooms. Parkland Hospital of Dallas, Texas, made this startling discovery as they w...

“Man has a horror of aloneness, and of all kinds of aloneness, moral aloneness is the most terrible.”

In a popular essay for the online magazine Aeon, Nabeelah Jaffer elaborates on a theme found in the philosopher Hannah Arendt’s work, that is the connection between loneliness and terror: ‘Loneliness...

The most terrible poverty is loneliness, and the feeling of being unloved.

In the intro sequence of the beloved children’s show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood , the first interior shot does not show the host. Instead, in the beat before Fred Rogers appears on the screen si...

Jesus has journeyed to the far reaches of loneliness.

There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.

Whether young or old, Americans are feeling more isolated. According to a recent study from the Pew Research Center, about half of Americans have weekly interactions with their neighbors, which means ...

"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."