Howard Rheingold Quotes

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.

It is difficult to live among people because silence is so difficult.

Our social relationships are limited, most of the time, to gossip and criticizing people's behavior. This observation slowly pushed me to isolate from the so-called social life. My days pass by in solitude.

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

Books are a poor substitute for female companionship, but they are easier to find.

The great irony to Dirk [Gently] is that he sees connections in everything, but the one thing he fails and struggles with most is connecting with other people.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering for it.

I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

I really only have a few friends.

I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

I want to be around people, not crickets.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.

How we need another soul to cling to.

From the boardroom to the bedroom, we're connected 24/7, yet loneliness is at an all-time high. More people are reaching for mobile devices than for the hand of someone in need. Where did our humanity go?

No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

Friends and relatives might be surprised that I think of myself as lonely. I'm married to a man I not only love but like, and we spend a lot of time together. If I feel like socializing, I can usually find someone to meet for coffee or a drink.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

All I have are the people.