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Quotes About Loneliness

I feel like I'm working on an oil rig right now. I'm away from home a lot.
~ Hugh Laurie
I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when women talk about things. I'm all about female empowerment. There's a lot of lonely, lost moms out there. Moms need to be encouraged to tell the truth. There's a lot of glamour mommy stuff. It's OK to get real.
~ Kelly Cutrone
The cliche of call-centre work is that it's mainly older people who will stay on the line to talk to you. Whether through loneliness or good manners, they tend to allow you to finish your sentences, hear you out.
~ Sara Pascoe
Christmas has rarely been a joyous time for me. I'm estranged from my family, and sometimes I don't have my oldest daughter with me.
~ Stephanie Land
When my dad was still playing, he was away for five years on and off, so it just used to be me and my mum at home until my little brother came along when I was five.
~ Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain
My parents got divorced when I was nine months old, and my father would only pop in and see me once a year, if that. I don't have much contact with him.
~ RJ Mitte
One of the things reading does, it makes your loneliness manageable if you are an essentially lonely person.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Having cancer is a lonely experience. It is the one time in your life that you cannot ask those closest to you, 'What should I do?' It's too heavy a burden to place on another person. This is your life, your decision, and cancer kills.
~ Suzanne Somers
Online communities are an expression of loneliness.
~ Joanne Harris
I'm an only child, so I don't even have nieces or nephews.
~ Charlie Rose
I'm an only child, so I'm pretty much a loner.
~ Shia LaBeouf
You know, as an only child, you're kind of in a bubble, and there are all sorts of things about my childhood that I still can't really place.
~ Penn Badgley
An only child, I always wanted a large hug-house.
~ Jerry Lewis
No. I was an only child.
~ Robert Fulghum
Growing up, mostly in Montreal, I was an only child of loving parents.
~ Rudolph A. Marcus
Maybe it's because I was an only child, but I've always wanted kids.
~ Benedict Cumberbatch
My husband is an only child of only child parents.
~ Nia Vardalos
I was an only child, so I was alone a lot.
~ Mark Foster
I was an only child, and I spent a lot of time alone. My dad was an only child, too, so we didn't have a big family, and I was really close with both of my parents. Like any kid, I thought I knew more than they did.
~ Richard Jenkins
I grew up an only child, and I always felt as if I didn't fit in. In middle school, in grammar school, and even high school, I just didn't feel like I fit in.
~ Shanice Williams
Life as an only child can be a bit lonely, and when I had Finley, I decided that if I could give him a big family, I wanted to as much as possible.
~ Holly Marie Combs
I was an only child until I was six.
~ Sophie Dahl
I was an only child.
~ Gilbert Arenas
My dad was an only child. His father raised him all but alone after his mother abandoned the two of them. He was only three years old.
~ Jonny Bairstow