Quotes About Loneliness

I lived for nearly seven years with the awareness that death was my everyday companion.

Needless to say, when I work on a film, it's mostly just me alone in my room just waiting to present the music to the director - and either he likes it or not.

My parents just neglected me, I wasn't abused or anything.

In America, the old are neglected.

Military families are increasingly living away from military bases, embedded in civilian neighborhoods. It gives military families and civilians the opportunity for greater exposure to one another, yet many feel lonely and isolated.

I didn't have very many friends growing up. I was very much a nerd. I read comic books, and I wanted to do well in school.

When I was growing up, I think I was expected to be seen and not heard. You're this little, nerdy kid; no one wants to hear about how sad you are. Nobody wants to hear that you feel lonely.

Living in Finland as a singer of Nightwish, I'm used to having people around me all the time that know who I am. In the Netherlands, people never really knew or cared or whatever.

I embraced loneliness as a kid. I know what loneliness is. When you're at the end of your rope. I never forget those feelings.

I will never forget what it was like coming out and having nobody to look up toward.

It sounds crazy, but I'm so married to my work that I rarely meet new people.

The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.

When you're on the road and moving city to city, when someone isn't there at the end of the night, you feel empty.

I'm on this extraordinary adventure, and if I have no one to talk to at the end of the night, I feel lonely.

I have this nightmare that one day I will have to look at every picture I've ever taken with people in an airport or in bars or restaurants, and it will make me very sad.

The party life that had once given me so much confidence and comfort had turned into a nightmare where I never felt more alone.

There are certain nights you and your image just aren't in the same bed.

There are definitely some nights where the show is over, and you're on the bus or a hotel room, and it's sort of a shock to go from being in the atmosphere of a club or a theater and be at your own show to being by yourself in a hotel room.

I was in depression. I was in my room, dark every night, not wanting to talk to nobody, not going out with my friends, not doing anything, not having a great time. It was a lot of dark nights.

It's lonely being stuck in a hotel in London for two nights. Even a couple of nights away from the children is awful.

Someone comes every morning at nine o'clock to see if I am still alive. I do get lonely, yes, but I have the children who come and see me. I see all my children every week, and there are the grandchildren, too.

The essence of Richard Nixon is loneliness.

I screamed and cried, but no one ever came. No doubt it was in one of those scream-filled nights in which my strong singer lungs and my crazy voice were born.

I ain't got no friends.