Quotes About Loneliness

Are we alone? Many, many people on planet Earth want to know. We are on the cusp of being able to answer that question... because of the investments we're making in space technology.

My journey to working on loneliness was certainly not an expected one or planned one.

I had a period in my life where I decided that I would never be bored again and that, if I had any free time at all, I would make plans, and I would always be doing things. It actually was great for a year or so, but then I lost all of my friends.

After about a month of living on my own, I began to feel it. I bought some plants. I remember I named one of them Penelope, and I would talk to her and water her every day. Apparently, I over-watered her, and she died. That's when I knew I needed a roommate. So I got one.

For years, I've felt like the loneliest brother on the planet. I don't play basketball, I can't dance, and I'd rather listen to Harry Nilsson than hip hop.

People talk about games and loneliness - it's a lonely activity. I didn't understand that. 'Gears of War' was the first multiplayer game for me that I enjoyed. But I wasn't sad. I liked being alone. I liked playing games by myself. I had lots of companionship at the house.

I am plenty lonely in hotel rooms.

There are a lot of lonely people on the planet that have a lot of money in their pocket and no place to go on a Friday night.

There is something very poignant about plastic bags. These lonely plastic bags that gradually disintegrate.

I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

I'm in the loners' society. I don't want to classify myself as anything.

The road is a lonely place, and that sounds like a cliche, you know, like what is my life?

When you think about climate change, that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.

I don't have a lot of close friends.

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world.

It can be really lonely running for office, especially if you've never done it before and especially when all the normal channels of power are basically closed to you.

If the club was empty, I sang to the chairs.

Maybe some day they'll find me behind the computer, just bones and cobwebs.

I was living alone, so I'd get quite lonely and running became a way to combat my loneliness and de-stress.

I have some friends who are comedians but not many.

I've always felt so unconnected to other comedians.

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.

Everything was coming my way, but I was going down. I was painfully empty.

I feel like artists, as much as we'd like to think we're communal, are pretty much loners.