Sherry Turkle Quotes About Solitude

Quotes about: Solitude

• 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

• People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, People, Seductive

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

• 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

• It’s a way of life to be always texting and when you looks at these texts it really is thoughts in formation. I do studies where I just sit for hours and hours at red lights watching people unable to tolerate being alone. Its as though being along has become a problem that needs to be solved and then technology presents itself as a solution to this problem…Being alone is not a problem that needs to be solved. The capacity for solitude is a very important human skill.

  Sherry Turkle

  Technology, Light, Skills

• The kind of solitude that refreshes and restores is very important, not just for children, not just for adolescents, but for all of us. If you don't teach your children how to be alone they will only be able to be lonely.

  Sherry Turkle

  Lonely, Children, Solitude

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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