Jean Baudrillard Quotes

I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were

Solitude is considered un-American.

Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

More and more of us live segmented, compartmentalized lives. This isn't natural. For millions of years, our forebears knew everyone around them and everyone knew them.

There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you move away from where you started.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.

If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

Solitude would be ideal if you could pick the people to avoid.

I don't really have a social life.

Think about back in the day when we had Archie Bunker, 'The Jeffersons.' We had stuff to sit down and share and laugh at. The Internet has made it so we don't have to sit together anymore. It's so self-absorbed. No one has to talk to each other anymore, and people don't realize that that is killing us.

We behave as if being alone were a problem.

Loneliness is a huge issue for both individuals and for society. It's taken a long time for the issue to be treated seriously and for us to begin to understand the impact it can have.

One of the things that happens in our regular lives is that when we're in moments of pain or feeling alone, we may hesitate to reach out to others because we may think - they're not going through the same experiences I am.

I was a loner; I spent the first half of high school alone.

I trained in internal medicine, and I expected most of my time would be spent on diabetes or heart disease or cancer. What I didn't expect was that so many people I saw would be struggling with loneliness.

Society than solitude is worse, And man to man is still the greatest curse.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

There is no desert like being friendless.

We are lonesome animals. We spend all our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say — and to feel — "Yes, that’s the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought."

Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.

She is inhumanly alone. And then, all at once, she isn't.