Difficult Emotions: Loneliness Quotes

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"When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself"

Michael Zaslow, Actor

"I don't really belong to that world and I don't think anyone's going to miss me. I'm much happier just to write myself out of the script entirely"

Phil Collins, Musician

"Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time"

Keri Russell, Actress

"For me, Los Angeles, New York, where I don't know my neighbors, where people don't necessarily care if they know their neighbors, I'm missing things that truly fed my soul when I was younger, the exchanges between people, the caring and the shared history with people"

Sela Ward, Actress

"I never belonged anywhere. I just felt like a creature from another planet"

Siobhan Fahey, Musician

"It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'"

Gabriel Byrne, Actor

"I was looked at as weird, odd, not fitting in with the Hollywood crowd"

Morgan Brittany, Actress

"Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react"

Jennifer Beals, Actress

"When I started, there weren't that many kids doing it in the city, but the in the wave after me, there were a lot of them and they actually never spoke to each other"

Eric San, Musician

"Other kids did drugs; I did crafts. I never knew where I fit in"

Kathie Lee Gifford, Entertainer

"The sky is one whole, the water another; and between those two infinities the soul of man is in loneliness"

Henryk Sienkiewicz, Novelist

"No matter how famous and established they were or however blessed they were with great songs or long careers, if they lived alone, they lived alone. That's not the way I wanted to live prior to the tour or after"

Edie Brickell, Musician

"It doesn't matter about money; having it, not having it. Or having clothes, or not having them. You're still left alone with yourself in the end"

Billy Idol, Musician

"I felt like an outsider. The only time you get to really know guys is on the ice, and I couldn't be there"

Saku Koivu, Athlete

"I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves"

Susan Griffin, Writer

"He was lost out there. He was the lost Mohegan"

Mickey Rivers, Athlete

"But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion"

Jim Hodges, Politician

"I felt alone out there, like I was on a desert island. I felt like Gilligan"

Mickey Rivers, Athlete

"Pain can be alleviated by morphine, but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away"

Derek Jarman, Director

"To whom, then, must I dedicate my wonderful, surprising and interesting adventures? To whom dare I reveal my private opinion of my nearest relations? The secret thoughts of my dearest friends? My own hopes, fears, reflections and dislikes? Nobody!"

Frances Burney, Writer

"Rural towns aren't always idyllic. It's easy to feel trapped and be aware of social hypocrisy"

Bill Pullman, Actor

"If there is a look of human eyes that tells of perpetual loneliness, so there is also the familiar look that is the sign of perpetual crowds"

Alice Meynell, Poet

"Experiments were not attempted at that time, we did not believe in the usefulness of the concept anyway, and I finished my thesis in 1962 with a feeling like an artist balancing on a high rope without any interested spectators"

Richard Ernst, Scientist

"We're very needy people, you know"

Alex Van Halen, Musician

"I just don't get invited to the same dinner parties I used to like to go to"

Ron Silver, Actor

"The loneliness is when you pick up and move, even if you are not originally from that place, and you have some memories that you want to embrace. Having a life in transit, I feel like you are always looking out the back window"

Ajay Naidu, Actor

"It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times"

Thomas Brackett Reed, Politician

"I have been on my own all my life except during those touring days"

Cyril Cusack, Actor

"And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast"

Max Muller, Educator

"Loneliness seems to have become the great American disease"

John Corry

"I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself"

Robbie Williams, Musician

"Negative feedback is better that none. I would rather have a man hate me than overlook me. As long as he hates me, I make a difference"

Hugh Prather, Writer

"I'm not fit company for man or beast"

Billy Strayhorn, Composer

"Being alone is scarier than any boogey man, and the reason why I don't choose to see horror movies as a rule"

Tom Sizemore, Actor

"I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world"

Noel Gallagher, Musician

"To share our stories is not only a worthwhile endeavor for the storyteller, but for those who hear our stories and feel less alone because of it"

Joyce Maynard, Writer

"We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing"

Jude Law, Actor

"Just having the pain of being alive without anything else, whether it's good or bad. There's a lot of serious songs on the record, you know. That song is just about feeling like a fish out of water, feeling like you don't belong on the planet sometimes"

Jon Crosby, Musician

"When you stop to think about it, so many films today where we don't have that kind of contact are films about alienation. About alienated feelings. We are much more alienated from our colleagues nowadays"

Elmer Bernstein, Composer

"No one ever takes my side"

Chris Noth, Actor

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