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Quotes About Loneliness

It's hard to be a teenager. It's lonely, and you feel like no one understands you. I think that's natural, and my mother let me have the space to feel that way.
~ Dove Cameron
At that time, I feel sad, and I feel no one knows how hard I work and how many tears. They only know the score. At that time, I feel very lonely because no one understands since they haven't been world No. 1 before.
~ Yani Tseng
I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.
~ R. Kelly
I guess I'm quite used to not being understood rather than being understood.
~ Bjork
At least I had that, one guy understood me.
~ Yoko Ono
I grew so depressed from the lack of support that I considered quitting. No one understood me.
~ Shinya Yamanaka
If you're understood in maybe, I don't know, 60% of your soul by your partner, that's fantastic. Don't expect that it's going to be 100%. Of course you will be lonely.
~ Alain de Botton
My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life.
~ Michel Legrand
For me, when I went through my depression, I always felt like I was alone, and because people never understood me, I had to shut myself out from the world. Art and music was the only thing that could ever help me get over that.
~ Amber Liu
I was 27, an unemployed actress living in a really crappy studio apartment. I had just moved to Los Angeles alone, away from my family. I had cervical and uterine cancer and I was told that I would never be able to carry a baby.
~ Marissa Jaret Winokur
There is a crisis that is not political - an epidemic of loneliness, of sadness - and we're completely unequal to dealing with it.
~ Richard Flanagan
Having a child has been the most unexpected privilege, as I spent so long on my own thinking it would never happen.
~ Jon Richardson
For years, there was no man in the house when my husband was off on law cases in the Far East. Without writing, I would have been bored and unfaithful, maybe both, and the children would have been hideously over-protected.
~ Jane Gardam
Aftab has been singularly unfortunate in love.
~ Vikram Bhatt
I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.
~ Robin Williams
Hatred doesn't need company. It stews in its own loneliness and can grow still. Love needs companions. Love alone is daunted. Love together is unbound and unrestricted.
~ Kyle Schmalenberg
The sea, the sea…Man alone, Passive, unawareIn his elemental sadness.
~ Scott Hastie
Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist.
~ Charles Bukowski
I always wanted to be the last guy on Earth, just to see if all those women were lying to me.
~ Ronnie Shakes
I find Nevada to be extremely spooky.
~ Weyes Blood
Boxing is a lonely sport and when you lose it's hard to take and it's hard to get over.
~ Carl Frampton
You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.
~ Guy Forget
I didn't have any friends. I was bullied. I didn't play sports.
~ Dacre Montgomery
He did not know what love was. And he did not know what good it was. But he knew he carried it around with him, a scabrous spot of rot, of contagion, for which there was no cure.
~ Harry Crews