Quotes About Loneliness

I have always seen Rajesh Khanna coming on the sets with his secretary only and no one from his family.

There is no shame in my saying that we all want to be loved by someone. As I look back over my life in romance, I don't feel I've ever had that.

There's a tremendous sense of shame that people who are lonely feel. I say that as someone who felt ashamed of being lonely as a child and even at points during adulthood.

Obviously, you're always shocked when you feel like you're not wanted anymore.

I hate the showbiz scene.

Coming to Middlesex, there was one coach in particular who backed me. But outside of that, it's a pretty lonely place.

The thing I remember about New York was how little I felt. I arrived with one small bag and $15.

When I left The Royal Ballet, I didn't have anybody to talk to.

The only family I knew was the Royal Ballet and I didn't feel I was part of it in a way. I moved up quite quickly so I didn't make many friends. You are on your own in that sort of place.

I don't want to be that guy mumbling into his drink at a bar.

I still don't like going to bed alone.

She had the kids during the day and I would have them at night. That way they were never alone. I would put the kids to bed, and then I had nothing to do and nobody to talk to, so I would write.

Sometimes, being a girl away from home - it gets to you.

We can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone.

It's really hard to do this life - to be a human being alone.

I wasn't perfect and didn't have it together. I felt alone. So through acting, I decided to be a shape shifter and with every role become the character instead of being myself. It meant about 10 years of no one knowing I was the same person in every movie.

I don't really feel like I belong anywhere.

I don't feel that I belong anywhere. Or rather, if there's a place I belong, I don't feel I'm there.

I don't belong much anywhere.

I never felt like I belong to anything - to any groups of friends. I never really had that.

I know what it feels like to be on the outside, a place that you don't belong, feeling like you're the only one of your kind.

Sometimes I think it was like he was storing up company for the times when he knew nobody would be around

When McCandless came into his world, however, the boy undermined the old man's meticulously constructed defenses. Franz relished being with McCandless, but their burgeoning friendship also reminded him how lonely he'd been. The boy unmasked the gaping void in Franz's life even as he helped fill it. When McCandless departed as suddenly as he'd arrived, Franz found himself deeply and unexpectedly hurt.

There was loneliness, too, as the sun set, but only rarely now did doubts return. Then I felt sinkingly as if my whole life lay behind me. Once on the mountain I knew (or trusted) that this would give way to total absorption with the task at hand. But at times I wondered if I had not come a long way only to find that what I really sought was something I had left behind.