Quotes About Loneliness

He knew well the singularly strange sensation of loving one's family to distraction, and yet not feeling quite able to share one's deepest and most intractable fears. It brought on an uncanny sense of isolation, of being remarkably alone in a loud and loving crowd.

And all she could think was that her life was passing her by, and if she didn't do something soon, she'd die this way. Alone.

And then they left, and all was quiet, but it wasn't peaceful. Just empty.

Nobody ever thinks it's nice to see me...But I thank you for lying all the same. ~ Lady Danbury

He knew well the singularly strange sensation of loving one's family to distraction, and yet not feeling quite able to share one's deepest and most intractable fears. It brought on an uncanny sense of isolation, of being remarkably alone in a loud and loving crowd.

It can be a lonely place when you are injured. You miss being out there with your team-mates and just experiencing the highs and the lows.

There are injuries nobody's even around the guy, and the guy's getting hurt.

I don't want anyone to ever feel they are alone and no one likes them, or to feel as insecure as I did.

When you're growing up, it's very easy to feel lonely and insecure.

We can experience an erosion of self-esteem when we're lonely, as we come to believe that it's because we're not likable or because something is broken inside of us. And that can just compound that loneliness further and further.

I get really homesick inside.

When you've nothing to live for, you get to thinking inside your head.

'Lonerism' is such an insular, detached album.

All I do is I have this insulated life with my wife and my daughter and a couple of friends who I try to see, but it doesn't even happen.

People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children, and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: 'Why would anyone want their children to be the brightest?' Academia is a lonely world.

Most of the characters I'm drawn to, as an actor, are ones that are quite intensely lonely and a bit lost and are looking for some kind of redemptive answer.

I don't interact with people much.

I can go days without meaningful human interaction.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

'Castaway' is my favorite movie, and any time I read about a castaway or a story like that, it just interests me a lot.

Who could believe such a thing? That it was better to live a life of constant loneliness and emptiness rather than try to fill the void with someone of an "unacceptable" class or clan? That it was better to be alone than try to find someone to love outside the narrow strata of society my parents approved of?

The rooms in those days were unfashionably sad enough to commit suicide in, and, in fact, that to me was the Château's charm, that it didn't have any objections to one's committing suicide. Things since then had gone steadily downhill

God, what a night. I was so glad you were home, standing up in all that wind while everyone else was blowing across the streets like tumbleweeds. I wonder if you wish you hadn't been there, with the future looming up in such utter chaos before us. And meanwhile, the night was old and you were beautiful.

howling on the tile bathroom floor. Sunrise bleeding in her white dress waited just behind Jacaranda's next drink. Her next drink would always be waiting for her, languishing away.