Quotes About Loneliness

My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet.

I get homesick a lot. That can make me so emotional that I sometimes feel like crying- but never in front of anyone. No way!

Poverty is clearly one source of emotional suffering, but there are others, like loneliness. A policy to reduce the loneliness of the elderly would certainly reduce suffering.

I can be an emotional eater. Of late, I have been doing that, yes. It started when I was very little. My brothers were gone on tour a lot, and I would miss them so much.

Emotional Freedom is a must-read for anyone who's tired of feeling frustrated, lonely, or stopped by fear.

I didn't have friends. No one talked to me. I used to go to the Wyndcroft School (nationally recognized for academic excellence) in Pottstown, and when I moved to Wyomissing, I didn't know anybody.

There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.

My childhood was extremely lonely. I was dyslexic and lots of kids make fun of me. That experience made me tough inside, because you learn to quietly accept ridicule.

I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience.

I've made some really good friends from movies, but a lot of the time it's a very isolated experience that lives and dies during the production.

It is the first experience you ever had of reading a decent poem: 'Oh, somebody else is lonely, too!

At some point just about all of us experience loneliness. In a sense, it is what it means to be a sentient animal, to have an experience of separation from others.

It's a disservice, really, when we put celebrated people on a pedestal and don't allow them to be human. It's a very lonely experience for the individual. It's not a sustainable way to live.

What I write is emotionally honest and truthful as the human experience can be, to make people feel less alone, or at least that's the hope.

Whereas for me, touring tends to be a very strange and isolating experience.

I experience so many feelings and emotions when I tour. It's the most amazing and also the most lonely thing you can do.

There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.

Failure's hard. There's no way around. Bombing on stage never feels great. You feel judged, you feel alone. But then when your performance works, it's transcendent.

There is no feeling quite so lonely as failure.

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

Some nights in the midst of this loneliness I swung among the scattered stars at the end of the thin thread of faith alone.

For whatever reason, loving someone gives you purpose. It fills you with hope, joy and a sense of optimism. But when that person leaves you; abandons your love without warning, what do you do? You are left in love, alone and desperate to feel that sense of belonging and worth again.

Have you been in a crowded room, but felt like you were alone? Have you ever felt like a puzzle with missing pieces? Have you always been that shoulder to cry on? Have you felt so empty, that the darkness takes over?

Nobody knows the real me. Nobody knows how many times I've sat in my room and cried, how many times I've lost hope, how many times I've been let down. Nobody knows how many times I've had to hold back to tears, how many times I've felt likeI'm about to snap but don't just for the sake of others. Nobody knows the thoughts that have gone through my head whenever I'm sad, and how horrible they really are ...