Loneliness & Company Quotes

“I don't want to think about how friendship follows no logical path. How you can care about someone who annoys you every single day. How a person can become interwoven into your life, and without them it would feel empty.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“Notification after notification dings and beeps and rings, and even though they’re all in the ether, all in the air, I can feel them. I feel them weighing me down.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“There are so many little things to do just to maintain the body.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“Routine is the death of awareness.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“I get used to my phone buzzing. To waking up to messages, to falling asleep with them. It’s an unexpectedly good sensation, being included, surrounded.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“I read somewhere that people shop because they need things. But sometimes people shop because they need to feel things.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“I think about how good productivity feels, like moving in a world where everyone else is frozen.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“The truth is, sometimes Janet revels in stress. Bathes in it. Welcomes it. A certain level buzzing beneath the surface simply means the project is worthwhile, difficult enough to wake her vitals, excite her mind. And if Janet loves anything, it’s to be challenged.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“Where you are affects who you become. What you look at, what you’re surrounded by, whether digitally or physically, affects how you act and perform.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“There I am: the physical, glorious proof of determination. Pushing myself to a limit most people don’t know how to push themselves to.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“But it turns out that not thinking about something generally makes you think about it.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“Feelings come, and I let them this time. I stop fighting them. They're painful and paralyzing. They carve a path and puncture holes. But maybe we need loneliness. Maybe we need to feel disconnected so we can do something about it, or at least try.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“I guess I feel anxious in a good way, too. It's a weird cycle: Do I do things all the time because they are important? Or because they make me feel important?”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“We open our mouths and let the world fall out.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“We cannot see the world without seeing pieces of ourselves”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“You could sit all day and think, but nothing will happen. You need to go do something instead. So what? You do something and it's a mistake. At least you tried.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“I love the experience of discovering something new, as if the world is full of Easter eggs if you look close enough. Tiny zips of awe run through me when I learn things.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company

“A person to think with is the most intimate
thing someone can have. And she has it, this connection that outlasts
the body’s demise, the heart’s tantrums.”
― Charlee Dyroff, Loneliness & Company