Quotes About Loneliness

Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say.

I grew up on a farm in Oregon, an adopted child, with one sibling, and parents the age of all my peers' grandparents. We lived in isolation from the people around us, and it was always a struggle to cope with as a child. The heart can really expire under those conditions. I always felt like I was looking at the world from the outside.

When I was in my 20s and kind of going through my own coming out process, I feared that I would lose my family. I feared that I would grow old alone. And that was a real part of my struggle.

I have experienced loneliness at many, many points in my life and felt this profound sense of shame about it - all the years when I was a child that I struggled with feeling lonely when I was scared to go to school and petrified of walking into the elementary school cafeteria because I was worried I wouldn't have anyone to sit with.

We think constant connection will make us feel less lonely. The opposite is true.

India's middle-class knows better than most how hard and lonely the struggle of an ordinary man can be.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

I don't even know how it is to have a home. I feel like an orphan or something.

It's odd to think of yourself as an orphan at 55.

If I lose show business - I'll really be an orphan!

Those last days on the road were the worst. Nobody was talking to me or would hang out after shows or do anything. I was made an outcast of the band I'd helped start.

I was kind of a misfit, actually. When you're young, you want to be like everybody else, and I was like nobody else. I couldn't sit still. I was impulsive. I still am. What is now called a 'talent' did not serve me well as a child. I didn't have friends. I was really an outcast.

I'm definitely gonna be an outcast.

I understand the feelings of being the outcast and the loner.

I was always an outcast, even in my family.

I was always this weird outcast kid.

I've felt like an outcast most of my life, being in multiple high schools and being a military child.

Gee, its lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do.

When I was younger, I felt very alone and that I didn't fit into my own skin. I loved the idea of becoming somebody else, and acting was an outlet for me and those emotions.

All my friends, they're all gone. I've outlived them all.

When I was at my most outrageous and destructive, I alienated almost everybody.

I've always felt outside of things; I've always felt different.

I think when things get hard with your family, it's really easy to want to isolate yourself. The world is so harsh, so when stuff happens outside, you want to go to your family, but when stuff happens inside your family, you sort of start to feel like, 'I'm alone. There is no place I can go to where just nothing will happen to me.'

Being cut off from the outside world is scary.