Distance from the group frees us from some social pressures ... - Charles Cooley

"Distance from the group frees us from some social pressures but increases our existential loneliness."

Charles Cooley Solitude

Sociologist American 1864–1929

More from Charles Cooley

"I am not who you think I am; I am not who I think I am; I am who I think you think I am."

"The looking-glass self is the sum of the impressions of how we appear to others."

"We live in the mind, in ideas, in imagination."

"Society is a relation among individuals."

"Sometimes being the best means being the loneliest."

"Solitude gives us time to reflect on what matters"

"I'm not good with people, never have been."

"I feel like I'm disappearing."