Loneliness Epidemic Quotes

Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.

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

The story of 'Mr. Robot' is really about this guy who's lonely - who's alone and feels so disconnected from the world.

Market moralities and mentalities-- fueled by economic imperatives to make a profit at nearly any cost-- yield unprecedented levels of loneliness, isolation, and sadness. And our public life lies in shambles, shot through with icy cynicism and paralyzing pessimism. To put it bluntly, beneath the record-breaking stock markets on Wall Street and bipartisan budget-balancing deals in the White House lurk ominous clouds of despair across this nation.

I'm not saying [economic] growth is wrong, but throughout the years of growth, many things didn't get better. ... If you look at America, the proportion of Americans with no one to talk to about important things went up from a tenth to a quarter.

Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.

Everybody gets lonely.

I was an incredibly lonely, very alienated teenager.

The disturbing truth we have to recognize is that Bourdain is not alone in his loneliness and depression.

Everyone's connected but no one is connecting.

SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"

We're living longer, we social network alone with our screens, and our depth of feeling gets shallower. Soon it'll be nothing but a tide pool, then a thimble of water, then a micro drop.

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.

We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.

It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

Any business or enterprise that shaves away loneliness is going to last forever. And like it or not but we've got a lonely society.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

I'm perpetually lonely.

Only the rich are lonesome.

Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

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

Physician Albert Scheweitzer said. " We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness." Professor Leo Buscaglia notes, "There seems to be accumulating evidence that there is actually an inborn need for this togetherness, this human interaction, this love. It seems that without these close ties with other human beings, a new born infant, for example, can regress developmentally, lose consciousness, fall into idiocy and die.

If I've helped fuel the debate on loneliness in some small way, that is wonderful.