Difficult Emotions: Loneliness Quotes

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"Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight"

Roy Orbison, Musician

"I was a master at keeping my feelings in"

Mark David Chapman, Criminal

"People who have nothing to do are quickly tired of their own company"

Jeremy Collier, Clergyman

"I've always been an outsider; a displaced person"

Siobhan Fahey, Musician

"No stranger ever comes up and talks to me. I'm the invisible woman"

Siobhan Fahey, Musician

"I've always craved to belong to somewhere, but I never have and never will"

Siobhan Fahey, Musician

"I would find myself backing away from all of the "isms", all of the communities. I have always been able to be misused by every community. But that is OK. I would rather be misused than neglected"

Anthony Braxton, Musician

"The most sinister aspect of Jack is his detachment, his ability to distance himself from his feelings"

Victor Garber, Actor

"I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean"

John Sayles, Director

"I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider"

Lasse Hallstrom, Director

"I'm never getting too lonely because it's the kind of disease where you might sit in front of the TV with three bags of biscuits, rather than communicate with the world"

Geri Halliwell, Musician

"I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again"

Jon Crosby, Musician

"I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day!"

Dan Brown, Author

"People who are incapable of having any kind of intimate relationship have to turn to feeling this incredible hunger and void, have to turn to some quantifiable external product to make them feel whole"

Jennifer Connelly, Actress

"I am more exempt and more distant than any man in the world"

Pierre de Fermat, Lawyer

"I think I'm dull. I would rather watch other people"

Mia Kirshner, Actress

"You are forever alone"

John Buchanan Robinson, Politician

"The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

"At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self"

Brendan Francis, Playwright

"I've had some interesting stuff happen to me - so why doesn't anyone ask me?"

Amanda Marshall, Musician

"I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room"

Brett Favre, Athlete

"I'm disappearing, avoiding most things"

Syd Barrett, Musician

"The individual couldn't find any attention in Italy"

Emma Bonino, Politician

"I don't worry anymore about where's the big hangout Tuesday night, Friday. Couldn't tell you and no one comes to me for advice anymore in those areas anymore, so real boring I would say"

Brett Favre, Athlete

"At 6 years old I knew there was no place for me"

Herve Villechaize, Actor

"I lived in England to learn English. When I went to England for the first time, it was like being on the Moon. I had no friends, I couldn't speak the language. I was very isolated"

Jean Alesi, Celebrity

"I've said it many times: nobody cares about you"

Jordi Segués, Entrepreneur

"I want people to feel less alone. That's the whole point"

Mitski, Musician

"Stories help us feel less alone"

Jenna Bush Hager, Journalist

"I hated my brief fame. We had TV vans camped outside my house, reporters hounded me... people I'd know for years started treating me differently"

Malcolm Wilson, Politician

"In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely"

Geoffrey Fisher, Clergyman

"I am alone here in New York, no longer a we"

Elizabeth Hardwick, Critic

"I couldn't really relate to the fraternity or party scene, to the people out in the mall every day protesting one thing or another. I felt like there was no one I could relate to"

Charlie Trotter, Celebrity

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

Ziyi Zhang, Actress

"Living in a tower, however secure it may feel, is hardly a social attribute"

Dirk Bogarde, Actor

"Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation"

Edie Falco, Actress

"When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied"

Rhona Mitra, Actress

"Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see"

John Gardner, Novelist

"I'm an outsider"

Jack Levine, Artist

"I'd never been to a prom, I had never had the whole high school experience. I think I was kind of an anomaly. I don't think they knew where to put me"

Alicia Witt, Actress

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