Quotes About Loneliness

Music helped me, growing up: it very much felt like a companion and made me less lonely.

One day, you have a father who's always around, and then the next day, he's gone. I was too young to comprehend that. I actually thought he was going to come back.

It is sometimes difficult to comprehend that I am the only member of our original family still living.

I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

I remember learning as a kid that love meant loneliness and confusion.

I wanted to communicate and connect. I simply didn't seem able to do it.

There are times when I feel incredibly loved and connected, and times when I feel alone. I think that's natural for all of us.

When I was not connected with someone, I didn't get asked out that often.

I didn't go to high school. I never felt connected to people my age.

For me, I value connection a lot, talking to people and connecting. Don't get me wrong: I enjoy having my own time, but I think it's really important to have that connection, so living on Mars would be a struggle for me.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.

You can be surrounded by many people but still feel quite lonely if you don't have strong connections and if you feel you can't be yourself with them. Conversely, you can just be around a few people, but feel deeply connected to them.

I have nobody. I have surrounded myself with people who are fake just because I need to talk to somebody.

I don't know what has caused this reawakening in academia. Obama? The GOP's assaults on science and on patients? Jon Stewart? I'm not at all sure. I just know I don't feel nearly as alone in academia as I used to. I'm feeling increasingly surrounded by fellow Ph.D.'s and by M.D.'s who seem to be taking a lot of things personally.

We're just one rock surrounded by this immense universe.

We spend 364 days a year surrounded by people who kind of are our family, but we never really get to meet them or break through with them.

I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.

Once refugee children are in the U.K., adapting to their new surroundings can be a lonely and demoralising experience.

I started keeping a diary in third grade and, in solidarity with Anne Frank, gave it a name and made it my confidante. To this day, I feel comforted and relieved of loneliness, no matter how foreign my surroundings, if I have a pad and a pen with which to record my experiences.

Being away from my family for six months a year - even if it was in the beautiful surroundings of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean - was just too hard.

It's a sad thing to contemplate, but I'm the last surviving cast member of 'The African Queen.'

There were times after the accident when I felt very lonely - burns survivors can feel terrible isolation. I wanted to create something that connects us all together, so that was the idea behind the Katie Piper Foundation.

I suspect people always thought I had a boyfriend, so nobody came after me.