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“The romantic artist, off alone in his storm-battered castle, fuming whole worlds from his brain, reflects his culture's most persistent myth, of God creating from a primal loneliness.”

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Book:Confessions of a conservative

Source: Confessions of a conservative

“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.”

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Author:Madonna Ciccone

“The association between failure, loneliness, and solitude is so strong in our culture that people often find it difficult to believe that there are some who like being by themselves.”

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Book:Lonely in America

Source: Lonely in America

“The most general deficiency in our sort of culture and education is gradually dawning on me: no one learns, no one strives towards, no one teaches--enduring loneliness.”

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Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“The traits of our sexual culture are still speechlessness, loneliness, violence and not enough desire and love.”

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Author:Volkmar Sigusch

“There are degrees of loneliness, ways in which the experience of loneliness deepens, becomes something like what we might call a way of life. This way of life is both what is most damaging to us as a culture, and, paradoxically, contributes to its richness. It may in the end be our lasting contribution to the life of our planet.”

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Author:Thomas L. Dumm

“If there's anything to be said in a broad way about different audiences it's that I live in a major city, and those themes of isolation, protectiveness, loneliness tend to resonate with other people in major cities. In a sleepier village, where people are married with their children, me standing up and saying, "This marriage idea is a funny old convention that we invented" - various things that are deconstructions of the norms of a culture - if people have already made decisions like that, they're more inclined to say "Please, stop talking about our marriages, 'cause we're here now."”

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Author:Simon Amstell

“If someone were plucked from the group and given those responsibilities, they might find themselves growing more aloof, just by virtue of that promotion. Suddenly the group culture excludes you. I saw this in my own working life, and I don't think it's a coincidence - I sensed a kind of loneliness in middle managers especially.”

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Author:Joshua Ferris

“Without touch, what kind of culture do we create? One where isolation and disconnection reign.”

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Book:Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction

Source: Subversive Acts of Humanity : A Survival Guide for Choosing Evolution over Self-Destruction