“Loneliness has followed me my whole life,” says Robert De Niro’s character, Travis Bickle, in Taxi Driver. “Everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There’s no escape. I’m God’s ...

Modern fiction keeps returning to lonely characters because isolation now hides inside relationships, workplaces and digital connection, turning loneliness into one of literature’s sharpest ways of ...

Loneliness is defined as “a distressing feeling that accompanies the perception that one’s social needs are not being met by the quantity or especially the quality of one’s social relationships.” ...

Research suggests loneliness and depression can reinforce each other, while social isolation has a more limited effect.

“Loneliness is grief, distended,” writes The New Yorker, condensing timelessness, placelessness, circumstancelessness of feeling. In all the poetical gravity of these lines, to call loneliness an ...

The latest observer to sound the alarm about workplace loneliness is the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. The organization on Tuesday published a commentary calling on employers to take action to identify ...

In a recent paper in the journal Scientific Reports, researchers explored the link between sensory processing sensitivity (SPS) and different forms of loneliness and isolation. Their findings indicate ...

Visit NAP.edu/10766 to get more information about this book, to buy it in print, or to download it as a free PDF. 4 The survey did not inquire about what kind of loneliness participants felt and ...