Sherry Turkle Quotes about Loneliness

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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

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

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