“Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people.” PeopleWorldMindLittlesStatesWholeEarthFeltCitiesLonelinessPlanetsWindowSevenConnectedBillionsState Of MindLocationCentre Author:Chris Hadfield
“We cannot know what John of Leyden felt Under the Bishop 's tongs - we can only Walk in temperate London, our educated city, Wishing to cry as freely as they did who died In the Age of Faith. We have our loneliness And our regret with which to build an eschatology.” KnowsAgeWishFeltWalksCitiesLonelinessCryRegretDiedLondonEducatedBishopsEschatology Book:A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989 Source: A Porter Selected: Poems, 1959-1989
“as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or ever could do it, or ever will be able to do it again.” WorldPersonsCountryAbleLawCan DoCitiesLonelinessSolitudeMapsDictatorUp To YouObedientYour Freedom Author:Ursula K. Le Guin
“As far as loneliness, I feel Los Angeles and its layout, having to drive everywhere - it is a lonely place. It's an isolated city in that respect because you're driving to places alone listening to the radio.” FeelsCitiesLonelinessListeningLonelyRadioDrivingLos AngelesIsolatedLayoutLonely Places Author:Jason Schwartzman
“In their heyday, the Pet Shop Boys were the Interpol of the Eighties, dressing up to sing really weird pop songs about lust and loneliness in the big city. They're low-pro now, not retro-worshipped in the manner of Depeche Mode, New Order, or The Cure, but you can hear the reason why - these guys are too sad.” ReasonBigsGuySongOrderCitiesBoysLonelinessLowsPopsLustCuresReason WhyShopsPetDressingsEightyDressing UpBig CitiesReally WeirdPop SongRetroHeydayDepeche Mode Author:Rob Sheffield
“I prayed for the city to be cleared of people, for the gift of being alone—a-l-o-n-e: which is the one New York prayer that rarely gets lost or delayed in channels, and in no time at all everything I touched turned to solid loneliness.” PeopleLostPrayerCitiesLonelinessNew YorkTouchedDelayed Author:J. D. Salinger
“In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.” PeopleCountryCitiesLonelinessQuietLonelyBeing LonelyLonesome Author:Geoffrey Fisher
“It's paradoxical that where people are the most closely crowded, in the big coastal cities in the East and West, the loneliness is the greatest... The explanation, I suppose, is that the physical distance between people has nothing to do with loneliness. It's psychic distance...” PeopleBigsCitiesLonelinessEthicsDistanceWestEastExplanationPsychicsCrowdedParadoxicalFriendlinessEast And WestCoastal Author:Robert M. Pirsig
“Our cities with their swollen populations and cliff dwelling high-rise buildings are breeding places for loneliness. Neighborhoods crumble under the housing development bulldozers and families scatter in pursuit of jobs and professions everywhere. In a world of wheels, old and comfortable groupings of people have disappeared.” PeopleWorldJobsCitiesLonelinessBuildingDevelopmentComfortablePopulationProfessionPursuitWheelsNeighborhoodHousingCliffsDwellingBreedingSwollenBulldozers Author:Allan Fromme
“My solo travels in Paris have brought many perfect hours of being alone but not a moment of loneliness. People who depend on other people are often in hiding from themselves. Two and a quarter million people live in the City of Light: you will see many of them and you will pass them in the street, but when you see Notre Dame after dark and walk home and perhaps stop to have a drink in the Marais, you can feel that the only thing that is missing from your experience is the common dependence on someone to distract your attention. You are living without it: you are on vacation.” PeopleFeelsTwoMomentsHomeLightHoursDarkWalksPerfectCommonCitiesAttentionMillionsStreetsMissingLonelinessDependsDrinkParisHidingQuartersVacationSoloDependenceSolo TravelDamesNotre Dame Author:Andrew O'Hagan
“There is a horrifying loneliness at work in this time. No, listen to me. We lived six and seven to a room in those days, when I was still among the living. The city streets were seas of humanity; and now in these high buildings dim-witted souls hover in luxurious privacy, gazing through the television window at a faraway world of kissing and touching. It is bound to produce some great fund of common knowledge, some new level of human awareness, a curious skepticism, to be so alone.” WorldHumansStillsSoulHumanityLevelsRoomsCommonCitiesSeaStreetsAwarenessLonelinessProduceTelevisionBuildingKissingSixWindowSevenBoundsCuriousPrivacyFundTouchingSkepticismListen To MeGazingLuxuriousCity StreetsCommon Knowledge Book:The Queen of the Damned Source: The Queen of the Damned
“Willy DeVille knows the truth of a city street and the courage in a ghetto love song. And the harsh reality in his voice and phrasing is yesterday, today, and tomorrow - timeless in the same way that loneliness, no money, and troubles find each other and never quit for a minute.” KnowsWayRealityTodaySongVoiceCitiesTroubleStreetsMinutesLonelinessTomorrowQuittingYesterdayHarshTimelessNever QuitNo MoneyGhettoCity StreetsToday And TomorrowHarsh Reality Author:Doc Pomus
“I thought of the cool, fresh air of the city I'd always dreamed of living in. The art museums and trolleys and the mysterious fog that blanketed it. I could almost smell the cappuccinos I'd planned to drink in bohemian cafes or hear the indie music in the bookstores I would spend my free time in. I pictured the friends I'd make, my kindred art people, and the dorm room I was supposed to move into.” ArtDreamArtistCitiesMusicLonelinessCollegeFriendsLonelyCoffeeAloneCaliforniaMuseumsDreamerFriendFogArtistsSan FranciscoEscapeCityBookstoresAlonenessBohemianMuseumBookstoreTrolleysIndie MusicDreamedTrolleyArt MuseumArt MuseumsDorm Book:I'll Meet You There Source: I'll Meet You There