Quotes About Loneliness

She looked at Farrell because there was nothing else to look at.

Maybe part of the problem of feeling like this life isn't my real life is that I have no connections, no real links to anyone.

It was awful to have no one belonging to you, and to belong to no one.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

Christmas makes everything twice as sad.

Your absence has not taught me to be alone, it merely has shown that when together we cast a single shadow on the wall.

The worst feeling isn't being lonely, it is being forgotten.

Some of your human religious philosophers have conjectured that the need for external stimulation is the very reason God created the universe, and humanity, in the first place. To have a purpose. To combat loneliness. To ensure there is something that exists outside of itself.

We used to spend quality time with a few people. Actually with them—physically. For hours on end. Now we spend time interacting with hundreds of people, but on our phones, or sitting in a chair all alone facing a computer screen.

I'm the only one outside of Icarus

Major Tom. Shouldn't you be calling ground control or something?

That is right. Some of your human religious philosophers have conjectured that the need for external stimulation is the very reason God created the universe, and humanity, in the first place. To have a purpose. To combat loneliness. To ensure there is something that exists outside of itself.

And yet there she was. The possible felicitous future. The hope we all crave. Can we do this? Can we somehow find a way of making each other happy? And, in turn, remind ourselves: we are not alone in the dark. It's what we all want. Isn't it?

the perennial outsider with his nose to the window, looking in on a world from which he felt excluded.

A baby starved of social contact has difficulty developing a regulated nervous system. Young men with few social acquaintances develop high adrenaline levels. Lonely students have low levels of immune cells. Prison inmates prefer violence to solitary confinement. In the US, social isolation is a greater public health problem than obesity.

Modernity is a busy place, spinning with silicon speed that goes ever faster but never forward, people pressed into cities full of loneliness.

Poor empty pants With nobody inside them.

Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV. Except when they don't Because, sometimes they won't. I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction.

We live in a generation of not being in love, and not being together. But we sure make it feel like were together because were scared to see each other with somebody else.

Cause I was stayin home when they was having fun. So please dont be surprised when they announce that I won.

Dont know why it happens every time we alone. But here we are again and I swear Im in my zone. So Imma sip this drink until that muhfucker gone, then you go get undressed and we gon get it on.