Quotes About Loneliness

I remember feeling it even then- the sensation that your heart weighs more than your body- that it might burst out of your chest and splatter all over the wall. I suppose it's called loneliness.

I imagined the towns were filled with people like me - lonely people who wanted to fly away, who wanted more from life than a dreary existence of one-stop shopping, but either didn't know what that meant, or didn't have the guts to go out and find it.

I went home feeling so unbearably alone I actually thought there was a possibility I could drop dead before the night was over.

It was as if all the melancholy I'd ever known, all the nights I sat alone thinking life sucked, had added up to our place in the world- finally a good place- and the spirit of that rightness was meant to echo on until the end of time.

I was alone. In ways people aren't supposed to be alone.

Maybe that was the key to getting rid of the loneliness, I thought. Treating love as entertainment, not salvation.

My soul is withering.

I was alone. In ways people aren't supposed to be alone. And sure, I could've stayed where I was, continued working my nowhere job, living in my nowhere apartment, eventually marry some nowhere man, have a few kids and anesthetize myself with provincial monotony like most of my peers had done, and before I knew it I'd be six feet under. I wanted more. And I had hope.

Maybe that was the key to getting rid of the loneliness, I thought. Treating love as entertainment, not as salvation.

Being wealthy when no one else is is like being the only one at the party with a drink.

But she knows she has a curse on her, a curse she cannot win. For if someone gets too close to her, the pins stick further in.

I was never interested in what everybody else was interested in. I was very interiorized. I always felt kind of sad.

If you've ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never quite leaves you. You can be happy or successful or whatever, but that thing still stays within you.

It's lonely at the top. Ninety-nine percent of people in the world are convinced they are incapable of achieving great things, so they aim for mediocre. The level of competition is thus fiercest for "realistic" goals, paradoxically making them the most time-consuming. It's easier to raise $1,000,000 than it is $100,000. It is easier to pick up the one perfect 10 in the bar than the five 8s.

Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.

Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about.

Never had any mathematical conversations with anybody, because there was nobody else in my field.

I'm not a huge TV person. I don't like having the noise when I'm doing other things unless I'm really lonely, and then I turn the TV on. But I do like to sit down and watch TV in the evenings.

Sometimes I feel very alone. I am a bit of a nomad. Many people in sort of emerging countries, emerging economies, find themselves displaced. So there is that sense, and so I'm part of a whole, I think, group of displaced people.

It used to be when you eat, you eat with people. But instant noodles are so instant that people eat by themselves. And it's a very convenient way of eating but also a very lonely way of eating.

There are very few moments in my life where I feel normalcy.

I'm not nostalgic for my glory days in college. It was lame for me. Probably because I had no friends.

I had gone from writing alone, not talking to anyone, to suddenly being in a room filled with not only people but actual celebrities.

I went to school, but nobody really noticed me. I just came to school, didn't dress up or anything - just a ghost. I just worked out and went out to the field and went the baseball route. That's how I've always been my whole life.