Frank Moore Colby Quotes

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

We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication.

Just looking at society as a whole, there are a lot of different things that we are not doing as a group to make sure we are close. Everything is in transit. People are moving from place to place. You can have a neighbor you live next to for five years and never speak to, and nobody has a problem with that.

Our society is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units.

You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.

Being cut off from the outside world is scary.

The more people are reached by mass communication, the less they communicate with each other.

We're too busy communicating to think, too busy communicating to connect, and sometimes we're too busy communicating to create. This is true for individuals and also true for organizations.

I can't stand when I walk into a room and everyone's not talking to each other and just on their phones.

I think we're really hungry for family in America, especially when I feel like people are really pulled apart from their families. So, we were interested in the idea of what the extreme version of that would be.

I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.

Our Adversary majors in three things: noise, hurry and crowds. If he can keep us engaged in "muchness" and "manyness," he will rest satisfied.

Lonely. I always thought loneliness meant alone, without people. It means something else.

With more people, there are more voices to tune out.

Everyone striving to be witty and sought-after, everyone talking and no one listening.

You know people. Most of them don’t hear anything. Those who hear - don’t listen. A few who listen - don’t understand. And those who could understand… they don’t care.

The worst time to feel alone is when you're in a crowd.

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

This time I m not going to tell you a story. I'll just say that insanity is the inability to communicate your ideas. It's as if you were in a foreign country, able to see and understand everything that's going on around you but incapable of explaining what you need to know or of being helped, because you don't understand the language they speak there.

Loneliness in a crowd of people was the worst kind of loneliness, but she couldn't help it.

Dave hung up. And unplugged the phone. With a fierce and bitter pain he stared at it, watching how, over and over again, it didn't ring.

Boredom ... causes us to neglect more duties than does interest.

When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.

I know nothing. I know no one. I’m lonely. Every time I see you, you’ve put up some new wall, and you never let me in.