Quotes About Loneliness

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

No one knows Anne's better side, and that's why most people can't stand me. Oh, I can be an amusing clown for an afternoon, but after that, everyone's had enough of me to last a month.

I'm concerned with the lost, the lonely, the shy. I think shyness is in some ways more widespread now than formerly. I used to be shy myself. Of course, you can't be me now and remain shy, but I remember very well what it felt like.

Can anyone understand how it is to have lived in the White House and then, suddenly, to be living alone as the President's widow?

I would suggest the widow do things the husband used to do, so he seems to be there with you. You will feel like just going to bed. It's so wonderful, going to bed.

I get lonely when I'm a Playstation widow.

I was a campaign widow.

There are widows who long for friendly voices and that spirit of anxious concern which speaks of love.

I don't have friends, I have thousands of acquaintances. No friends. I figured I had a wife and children.

The wife's run off with the bloke next door. I do miss him.

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

That's another thing about today's stars that makes me glad that I'm not doing it any more. The stars come with ten people all around them. I don't know how you ever make any personal contact with them.

I think, being from east Tennessee, you're kinda born with a little lonesome in your soul, in your blood. You know you've got that Appalachian soul.

My dad taught me how to play tennis, and I owe that to him. But the better you get, the higher you climb, and the more lonely you get. I've had to sacrifice a lot of personal relationships, but that's the choice I made.

Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

I'm actually part of a number of minorities. I grew up being a horribly awkward kid. A terrible student. And now I find myself as a filmmaker, and you feel kind of alone in the world because you're separate from everyone else.

It must be terribly lonely to be a king instead of a man.

I used to have a private... life. Now I dont have that... I have no freedom. I miss my normal life terribly. Its a prison-like life I'm leading.

What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way each time. You know, what I do is not terribly intellectual. I'm a pop singer for Christ's sake. As a person, I'm fairly uncomplicated.

I'm not a terribly popular person in life. I can handle that.

I feel terribly misunderstood; I feel terribly misunderstood.

I just find that you can become a very boring person living in L.A. I tell you, living there on a day-to-day basis is vacuous: terribly fake.