All the Lonely People : Conversations on Loneliness by Sam Carr

BATB score: 6/10 🫥

Best as: 65% Sam Carr’s memoir on loneliness; 35% other people’s telltale on loneliness

Best to: in need of roughly 15% more scientific data, experimental reference, tangible substance or else it’s just storytelling

Best for: this book is not worth your PhD 😬

Best quotes: “We come into the world alone and we die alone. Why, in life, should we be any less alone?”

“There is cruel irony in the fact that the relationships that play such a critical role in defending us from loneliness over the course of our lives are, of many, eventually lost, plunging us back into a turbulent sea of loneliness from which they once promised to save us.”

“Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Risk being seen in all of your glory.”

“The onset of loss and grief begins a long time before death takes hold.”