„The medical professionals are a lot more comfortable calling it "depression" than calling it "loneliness."“

„If you're calling me up just to chat, mundane, you must be lonelier than I thought.“

—  Cassandra Clare, The Mortal Instruments

Jace to Simon, pg. 225
The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

„I am stronger than depression and I am braver than loneliness and nothing will ever exhaust me.“

—  Elizabeth Gilbert, buch Eat, Pray, Love

Quelle: Eat, Pray, Love

„The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.“

—  Mark Twain American author and humorist 1835 - 1910

„Isolation and loneliness are central causes of depression and despair.“

—  Bell Hooks, buch All About Love: New Visions

Quelle: All About Love: New Visions

„A good doctor pursues his calling without any regard to a bad result. Otherwise, teaching in medical school might be called into question and where would we be then?“

—  Alain-René Lesage French writer 1668 - 1747

La Tontine (1709)

„And the waitress is practicing politics
As the businessmen slowly get stoned
Yes they're sharing a drink they call loneliness
But it's better than drinking alone.“

—  Billy Joel American singer-songwriter and pianist 1949

Piano Man.
Song lyrics, Piano Man (1973)

„The creative community has a lot more ideas than the executive community feels comfortable with.“

—  Josh Pate Screenwriter, director and producer 1970

Quelle: Surfacing with Josh Pate https://web.archive.org/web/20080409004815/http://www.mania.com:80/surfacing-josh-pate_article_49815.html (October 10, 2005)

„Although depression as an affect is found in several of the borderline categories, it does not correspond with that seen in the depressive syndrome. The borderline depression is a feeling of loneliness and isolation.“

—  Roy R. Grinker, Sr. American psychiatrist and neurologist 1900 - 1993

Quelle: The borderline syndrome, (1968), p. 95

„The choice is not between drugs and no drugs, but between illegal drugs and legal drugs. Until the 1920s drugs were legal, why not now? Lots of people are on drugs anyway — it is called medication.“

—  David Hockney British artist 1937

Interview with Jasper Gerard, "Taking the fight to the dreary people," The Sunday Times (London) (2 October 2005)
2000s

„In general, scientific progress calls for no more than the absorption and elaboration of new ideas — and this is a call most scientists are happy to heed.“

—  Werner Heisenberg German theoretical physicist 1901 - 1976

Physics and Beyond : Encounters and Conversation (1971)

„Behind every specific call, whether it is to teach or preach or write or encourage or comfort, there is a deeper call that gives shape to the first: the call to give ourselves away - the call to die.“

—  Michael Card singer, songwriter, author, composer, Radio Host 1957

Quelle: The Walk: The Life-changing Journey of Two Friends

„It comforted him because it could not be called suffering if it was a sign of Art.“

—  Hermann Bahr austrian dramatic, publicist and writer 1863 - 1934

„If society fits you comfortably enough, you call it freedom. “

—  Robert Frost American poet 1874 - 1963

„(Sylvia at typewriter) In the heat of the moment, I said a lot of unforgiveable things. Please call me. I've thought of a few more.“

—  Nicole Hollander Cartoonist 1939

Quelle: Sylvia cartoon strip, p. 148

„Frankly, I'm a lot more comfortable if I'm wearing a puppet.“

—  Jim Henson American puppeteer 1936 - 1990

Interview with Copley News Service (1976)

„The battle, if you could call it that, lasted no more than a few seconds.“

—  John Flanagan Irish-American hammer thrower 1873 - 1938

Quelle: The Icebound Land

„There is nothing more awful, insulting, and depressing than banality.“

—  Anton Chekhov, buch The Teacher of Literature

The Teacher of Literature (1894)

„That's why they call you Seer. You see more than most.“

—  Lois Lowry, Messenger

Quelle: Messenger

„i find nothing more depressing than optimism.“

—  Paul Fussell Recipient of the Purple Heart medal 1924 - 2012