Quotes About Loneliness

The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

I'd sooner go through with a pregnancy than spend a night alone in my house knowing there was a snake in the yard.

I kind of understood at a young age that I didn't play well with most other kids in the sandbox.

I am a raft of secrets, she thought, and she imagined herself on timbers from a shipwreck, the water around her endless in all directions.

It goes on and on. Studies showing that the lonely are twice as likely to have ulcers. Studies showing that unmarried men are two or even three times as likely to die of heart attacks as their married brethren. One of the great questions, it turns out is: Does your wife show you her love? If the answer is yes, you're in much better shape. So tell your partner you love her. Ask her to give you a pat, and you give her one. You both need it. You show me yours, I'll show you mine.

My constant companions were fears, not God. I convinced myself he was simply on vacation, out carrying someone else on that beach with all the footprints. My heart had shriveled, and my soul was as wrinkled

Margie Flynn was in my head like a bad cold, blurring everything. It was a new kind of loneliness, a hurt I couldn't stop picking at.

Aristotle said that only two living entities are capable of complete solitude and complete separateness: God and beast. Because of this the most acute form of suffering for human beings is loneliness.

I've only been in love with a beer bottle and a mirror.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

I was miserable at uni. There were months at a time when I wouldn't leave the house unless it was to buy food. I lost a lot of friendships. I later lost jobs because of my mental health.

I was miserable as a kid.

Not to be loved is a misfortune, but it is an insult to be loved no longer.

I really miss a lot of my friends out there.

I cry a lot because I miss people.

I'm not like a social butterfly or anything, but I just miss seeing even my friends.

If you have a good inner life, you don't get lonely. I've got a good imagination. I don't miss romance.

I often feel like I could fall off the face of the Earth. As long as 'Mama' was around, nobody would really miss me. People really think of her as an actual person. People all the time see me and ask, 'Where's Mama?' Like she should be with me.

When I arrived in France, I cried every day. Not because I was in France - I could have been anywhere - but because I was so far, far away from my parents. I missed them so much.

We form friendships so that we can feel certain emotions, like love, want, magic - of missing people, avoid others - like loneliness.

Why should I miss anything? The whole world is missing me.

Obviously I'm missing the city life.

I'm so used to being misunderstood.

Of course there are moments for everyone, and certainly for me, where you do feel misunderstood. You feel like you can't really connect. You do feel like you're alone in something.