Quotes About Loneliness

The workplace can be a good place to find opportunities to socialise, but what if you don't meet any like-minded people there, or what if you work alone? Is it, somewhat counter-intuitively, easier to find yourself lonely in a city than in a small town or village?

We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction.

The wide world is all before us - but a world without a friend.

Boxing is the toughest and loneliest sport in the world. You've got all the fans, lots of hangers-on jumping up and shouting different words. But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

I don't belong in the world. That's what it is. Something separates me from other people.

Anyone who suffers from depression knows once you're in it you're in it and you pretend to everybody till the last second of the day you're OK. Or you go the other way and don't leave the house.

During the initial two years in Mumbai, it was lonely and awkward for me, till I made some friends in South Mumbai.

I was lonely as a kid. Since I had no siblings, I spent a lot of time by myself and a lot of time reading.

The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.

Smart people, often times, are miserable people.

Stardom is a magical yet freakish situation at times. It's a cliche but very true that at times, you feel so alone, even when you're surrounded by so many people.

I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.

As a child, I spent a lot of time alone. I used to sit in my closet with one cracker. I'd pretend that I was on the North Pole freezing to death, and I had to somehow survive on this one tiny cracker.

I am tired, beloved, of chafing my heart against the want of you; of squeezing it into little ink drops, and posting it. And I scald alone, here, under the fire of the great moon.

The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don't know. I'll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don't know anything about him, and it's kinda sad.

I don't have friends, to be honest.

I don't think anything can help me socially, to be honest: I have this terrible personality. I don't really know how to describe it... maybe I'll go with surly.

It is tough to live by myself.

I had to learn compassion. Had to learn what it felt like to hate, and to forgive and to love and be loved. And to lose people close to me. Had to feel deep loneliness and sorrow. And then I could write.

'Galpo Holeo Sotti' had been made some time ago. But even today, I feel haunted. I still get scared to be all alone in a room.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

I want to be together with everyone else but stay lonely.

Film is a much lonelier process than theatre. You really don't have any rehearsal time in film. You don't shape it together... with theatre, there is a complete kind of family atmosphere. The sociable side of this business is the theatrical side, it really isn't the film side.

It took a toll when I couldn't see my mom as much.