Difficult Emotions: Loneliness Quotes

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"Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

Chuck Palahniuk

"People used what they called a telephone because they hated being close together and they were scared of being alone"

Chuck Palahniuk, Novelist

Chuck Palahniuk

"I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

Mike Tyson

"I feel bad about my outlook, how I feel about people and society, and that I'll never be part of society the way I should"

Mike Tyson, Athlete

Mike Tyson

"One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody"

Mother Teresa, Leader

Mother Teresa

"Gee, it's lonesome in the outfield. It's hard to keep awake with nothing to do"

Babe Ruth, Athlete

Babe Ruth

"When the people you love are gone, you're alone"

Keanu Reeves, Actor

Keanu Reeves

"Where I fit in is confusing to me"

Sheryl Crow, Musician

Sheryl Crow

"Beauty is ever to the lonely mind a shadow fleeting; she is never plain. She is a visitor who leaves behind the gift of grief, the souvenir of pain"

Christopher Morley, Author

Christopher Morley

"Is it any wonder that for millions of men the only intimacy is physical, silent, and predictable?"

Phil Donahue, Entertainer

Phil Donahue

"Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty"

Moliere, Playwright

Moliere

"No exile at the South Pole or on the summit of Mont Blanc separates us more effectively from others than the practice of a hidden vice"

Marcel Proust, Author

Marcel Proust

"My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely"

Truman Capote, Novelist

Truman Capote

"The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

Paul Cezanne

"I allow no one to touch me"

Paul Cezanne, Artist

Paul Cezanne

"Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real"

Ani DiFranco, Musician

Ani DiFranco

"I don't understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding - whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end it hardly mattered; no matter what they did, we ended up lonely and insane"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"I want so much that is not here, and do not know where to go"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me. I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"Being alone never felt right. Sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"I've never been lonely. I've been in a room... I've felt suicidal, I've been depressed. I've felt awful ... awful beyond all , but I never felt that one other person could enter that room and cure what was bothering me...or that any number of people could enter that room. In other words, loneliness is something I've never been bothered with because I've always had this terrible itch for solitude"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around"

Charles Bukowski, Poet

Charles Bukowski

"You feel quite distant by playing at huge stadiums year after year, where you only can see a great darkness in front of you"

Robert Plant, Musician

Robert Plant

"The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

Pearl S. Buck

"Not everyone can be an orphan"

Andre Gide, Novelist

Andre Gide

"When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone"

Walter Scott, Novelist

Walter Scott

"I was never less alone than when by myself"

Edward Gibbon, Historian

Edward Gibbon

"Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion"

Joseph Conrad, Novelist

Joseph Conrad

"The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved"

Princess Diana, Royalty

Princess Diana

"I tend to stay up late, not because I'm partying but because it's the only time of the day when I'm alone and don't have to be performing"

Jim Carrey, Actor

Jim Carrey

"Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening"

Willa Cather, Author

Willa Cather

"Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate"

Germaine Greer, Activist

Germaine Greer

"Pornography exists for the lonesome, the ugly, the fearful - it's made for the losers"

Rita Mae Brown, Writer

Rita Mae Brown

"Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking"

Doug Coupland, Author

Doug Coupland

"Solitude is un-American"

Erica Jong, Novelist

Erica Jong

"The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction"

Allen Ginsberg, Poet

Allen Ginsberg

"I give so much pleasure to so many people. Why can I not get some pleasure for myself?"

John Belushi, Comedian

John Belushi

"Sleeplessness is a desert without vegetation or inhabitants"

Jessamyn West, Author

Jessamyn West

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