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Quotes About Loneliness

As I grew into womanhood my confusion at the world became more apparent. I was taking comfort in behaviours that were familiar, not bathing, wearing multiple layers of clothes and, like my mother, I was bingeing on food. Of course I was still very much a lonely unsupported child myself when I got pregnant - one who had never been nurtured or mothered and as such I struggled with the responsibilities of parenthood.
~ Jane Hersey
She had never felt so alone or frightened in her life. She had come to Berlin to feel closer to her mother, and had found instead danger and death.
~ Jane Thynne
He pushed the coverlet halfway down his body and crossed his arms behind his head. Linc stared at the overhead fixture, his new best friend for the last several days--he'd actually felt like talking to it a few times.
~ Janet Dailey
Don't attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because you're lonely. Lonliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it know yourself... know what you want.
~ Janet Fitch
Loneliness is the human condition. No one is ever going to fill that space. The best thing you can do it to know yourself... know what you want.
~ Janet Fitch, "White Oleander"
Dr Howell drank from the special cup which was tied around the handle with red cotton to distinguish the staff cups from those of the patients, and thus prevent the interchange of disease like boredom loneliness authoritarianism.
~ Janet Frame
I'm not there, she thought. I'm not there. I'm nowhere. She felt the world go dark with sudden exclusion and she was beating her wings against the door of the dark but no one opened the door; indeed, no one heard.
~ Janet Frame
And he felt so lonely so close up to the sky, not the rewarding and proud loneliness he had felt when driving the train at night across the plains, but an unforgiving and harsh emptiness, as if he had been rejected by earth and sky and must stay forever now in the between gulf, tired and afraid.
~ Janet Frame
At this moment I do not have a personal relationship with a computer.
~ Janet Reno
When love is lonely, its because you have not found the love of your love. Even though you are being love.
~ Janet Wilson
At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.
~ Janette Rallison
But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
~ Janice Dickinson
That was probably how religion worked. The triumph of loneliness over intelligence. And why not? Why shouldn't religion be exactly the same as everything else? Faith, hope and charity: as relevant as serving suggestions.
~ Janice Galloway
Amar a alguien es fácil. ¿Pero cuando uno no puede ser amado?
~ Janine Teisson
On stage I make love to twenty five thousand people and then I go home alone.
~ Janis Joplin
On stage, I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone.
~ Janis Joplin
On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
~ Janis Joplin
At one apex is a paranoid lunatic, at another is a lonesome outcast: Kurt Gödel, the greatest logician of many centuries; and Alan Turing, the brilliant code breaker and mathematician.
~ Janna Levin
After my mother's death, I had such difficulty relating to people.
~ Jaron Lanier
People see you onstage and the glamorous side, but they don't see you traveling 600 miles a night, eating truck stop food and spending by yourself staring at walls.
~ Jason Aldean
Rey found herself in his mind even as he invaded hers. She felt his rage, like a ruinous storm that filled his head, and his hatred, and his lust to dominate and humiliate those who had wronged him. But she also felt his hurt, and his loneliness. And his fear - that he would never prove as strong as Darth Vader, the ghost who haunted his dreams
~ Jason Fry
Off in the distance, the Ringer watched the Ford Tundra drive off into the night before it disappeared around a bend in the road. There were few lights
~ Jason Pinter
A hole about six feet long, two feet wide, and four feet deep. A shovel lay beside the hole. She
~ Jason Pinter
And it's the first night I feel like someone might be watching me.
~ Jason Rekulak