Quotes About Loneliness

I have no family to take care of.

... family and friends aren't always ready to make the journey when you are, and you just have to keep plowing along whether they have confidence in you or not. That can be very lonely.

I was at the tail end of the family. The next brother along was already seven years older than me. I remember growing up by myself, playing games by myself.

I don't have any home. Everyone I grew up with, my family, are all dead. So I feel kind of like a ghost. I'm more interested in the past.

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

My mother isolated herself from all family and friends for some 20 years. And never met her grandchild, my son.

That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

During the holiday season, Christmas specifically, it can be hard to be away from family and friends.

What happened to me during the last couple of years of 'The Partridge Family' was I became so famous and so isolated and so unhappy that I had to do anything I could to end it.

Getting a divorce is always horrible because you feel you've failed. Everyone hates to give up on a marriage. You think your family's broken up.

In the middle of nowhere, a trunk heavy with gold is a burden, not treasure.

Because there wasn't anything else to do, he settled at the kitchen tablewith a bottle of mead and nearly emptied it. The anesthetic effect he hoped for hadn't happened, though. At least not yet.

These days the sun never cared to shine when people like me needed it most.

I hadn't thought about the fact that I was a foster child but, did notice that (in films) I'm often without a mother or father or both.

Getting old and dying alone is my worst fear.

My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

You have trouble feeling alive, so you stab your own heart just to feel something. It was the emptiness that was killing you. You created the sadness and the fear to fill it.

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

We're all torn between the desire for privacy and the fear of loneliness.

Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward.

Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness.

I'm afraid of everything. Fear of being alone, fear of being hurt, fear of being made a fool of, fear of failure... Still, I think all my fears bleed from one big one.