At the heart of loneliness is the absence of meaningful social interaction
Brené Brown • Braving the Wilderness
Oh, but being alone isn’t what makes you feel lonely. Loneliness is having other people and society and community around you, and having a deep sense of being excluded from them. To feel lonely, we need other people. That is to say, it is only in social contexts that a person becomes an “individual.”
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga • The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
That existence is scarcely to be termed life, which does not bring us into intimate connexion with our fellow-creatures.
Maria Popova • Mary Shelley on the Courage to Speak Up Against Injustice and the Power of Words in Revising the World
As Sherry Turkle puts it, ‘Boredom can be recognized as your imagination calling you.’