Quotes About Loneliness

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

I was an only child. I needed an alternative to family life - to real life, you could almost say - and cartoons, pictures in a book, the animated movies, seemed to provide it.

I spend plenty of time in London and it doesn't scare me, but it's a lonely place, even if you've got friends there. My job takes me all around the world, meeting lots of interesting people. But I think if I couldn't get home, if I couldn't get back to what I consider my real life I'd be frightened.

People ask about love. Real love. I was never in love; the people around me didn't love me. They were just along for the ride.

I'm much more at home with Daffy Duck than I am with a real person.

I felt an intense loneliness after my sister died. I was seven at the time, she was eight, and I realised after her death that she accepted me for who I was.

In the lonely hours, I have spent a great deal of time thinking about eternal things. I have contemplated the comforting doctrines of eternal life.

I am an expert in loneliness and have wandered around a great deal.

I thought 'I Am Legend' did a really great job of it, and 'Omega Man,' that concept of an empty world.

When I married Marjorie, along with her, I got this very large family and a bunch of family friends. It's a dynamic I've never been around. I've always been kind of a loner, and my attempts at domestic life failed miserably. So the family dynamic is a great thing.

When I was at school and wasn't having a great time or when music wasn't going very well, I would eat, eat. Eating would make me feel better; when I felt lonely, I would eat.

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

Being a widower is not that groovy when you lose someone you really love, and you have to go out and date again.

Making checklists of things you're looking for in a person is the numero uno thing you can do to guarantee you'll be alone forever.

I feel like a blind man searching a dark room. (Old Man Alone on Labor Day Weekend -- blog post)

Frank Castle: The sun slipped away behind me, the last sliver seeming to pause on the horizon, then succumbing to the black. And I drove on through the shadows of America... though the long, cold, dark night that I've made of my life.

You're the only person who means anything to me in the whole world, you're all I've got... Well then you've got nothin.

But the Dog was gone forever. Lirael

Third, one who is in love is not genuinely interested in fostering the personal growth of the other person. If we have any purpose in mind when we fall in love it is to terminate our own loneliness and perhaps ensure this result through marriage.

Physician Albert Scheweitzer said. We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness. Professor Leo Buscaglia notes, There seems to be accumulating evidence that there is actually an inborn need for this togetherness, this human interaction, this love. It seems that without these close ties with other human beings, a new born infant, for example, can regress developmentally, lose consciousness, fall into idiocy and die.

Isolation is devastating to the human psyche.

Hurt, anger, disappointment, loneliness, rejection, and sometimes hopelessness are some of the emotions that couples experience when their marriage is in the season of winter.

Some of the emotions of winter are hurt, anger, and disappointment, often accompanied by loneliness and a sense of rejection.

Affection is the mortal illness of lonely people.