Sherry Turkle Quotes About Loneliness

Quotes about: Loneliness

• Loneliness is failed solitude.

  Sherry Turkle

  Loneliness, Solitude, Introvert

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.288, Basic Books

• My own study of the networked life has left me thinking about intimacy - about being with people in person, hearing their voices and seeing their faces, trying to know their hearts. And it has left me thinking about solitude - the kind that refreshes and restores. Loneliness is failed solitude.

  Sherry Turkle

  Uplifting, Loneliness, Heart

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.288, Basic Books

• Terrified of being alone, yet afraid of intimacy, we experience widespread feelings of emptiness, of disconnection, of the unreality of self. And here the computer, a companion without emotional demands, offers a compromise. You can be a loner, but never alone. You can interact, but need never feel vulnerable to another person.

  Sherry Turkle

  Loneliness, Emotional, Self

  Sherry Turkle (1985). “The Second Self: Computers and the Human Spirit”, Touchstone Books

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