Difficult Emotions: Loneliness Quotes

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"Life is a solitary cell whose walls are mirrors"

Eugene O'Neill, Dramatist

"The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"Life's an awfully lonesome affair. You come into the world alone and you go out of the world alone yet it seems to me you are more alone while living than even going and coming"

Emily Carr, Artist

"Clinton feels a profound alienation from the Washington culture here, and I happen to agree with him"

Bob Woodward, Journalist

"Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone"

Octavio Paz, Poet

"The surest cure for vanity is loneliness"

Tom Wolfe, Journalist

"I had spindly little ankles, and growing up in Canada, I couldn't skate. I was no good at any sports so was very much a pariah through those adolescent years"

Neil Peart, Musician

"The building of friendship, family, community and love is complicated. We are so isolated in this country, no longer supported by tribes and villages"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"I meet so many people, but I don't know anybody"

Jasmine Guy, Actress

"As human beings, we need to know that we are not alone, that we are not crazy or completely out of our minds, that there are other people out there who feel as we do, live as we do, love as we do, who are like us"

Billy Joel, Musician

"I finally faced the fact that it isn't a crime not having friends. Being alone means you have fewer problems"

Whitney Houston, Musician

"Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own"

Henry Rollins, Musician

"When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes with life!"

Whitney Houston, Musician

"I'll always be a foreigner"

Olivier Martinez, Actor

"I want to be alone"

Greta Garbo, Actress

"Playing Christ, I began to feel shut away from the world. A newspaper became one of my biggest luxuries. I noticed that some of my close friends began treating me with reverence"

Max von Sydow, Actor

"I live like a Hottentot. I cannot exchange one sensible word with anyone"

Gustav Mahler, Composer

"Even in the presence of others, he was completely alone"

Robert M. Pirsig, Philosopher

"O solitude, where are the charms that sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, than reign in this horrible place"

William Cowper, Poet

Edith Sitwell, Poet

"We have a sense that we should be like the mythical cowboy... able to take on and conquer anything and live in the world without the need for other people"

Morrie Schwartz, Educator

"New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American"

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Writer

"Ain't nobody prayin' for me"

Kendrick Lamar, Musician

"Applause felt like approval, and it became a drug that soothed the pain, but only temporarily"

Anita Baker, Musician

"For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have"

Theodore Sturgeon, Writer

"I know what it feels like to be an outsider"

Judith Light, Actress

"I was different and people made fun of me"

Judith Light, Actress

"You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one"

Theodore Sturgeon, Writer

"Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people"

Joan Collins, Actress

"I don't know. I think it's funny! I think it's funny! I go, what? It's so absurd. I'm alone!"

Danny DeVito, Actor

"I never felt comfortable with myself, because I was never part of the majority. I always felt awkward and shy and on the outside of the momentum of my friends' lives"

Steven Spielberg, Director

"Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle"

Georg C. Lichtenberg, Scientist

"You have so much to share, you have so much to tell, you have so much you want to expose, so much that's inside that you've learned from that life period. There are really very few people I can share that with"

Priscilla Presley, Actress

"There's all these ways to instantly communicate - cars, computers, telephone and transportation - and even with all that, it's so hard to find people and have an honest communication with them"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

"Up to nineteen seventy six when I quit gymnastics I was very disappointed because I didn't have anything which is live with. I didn't have a friend so I didn't have a coach anymore"

Olga Korbut, Athlete

"People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely"

Mort Sahl, Journalist

"It's hard to be someone that people talk about and write about, you know? They don't know me"

Mariah Carey, Musician

"Once you grow past Mommy and Daddy coming running when you're hurt, you're really on your own. You're alone, and there's no one to help you"

Octavia Butler, Writer

"Man, I hate to get depressing on you, but I don't have a game. I'm so alone, so depressed, so dark, no"

Jason Schwartzman, Actor

"I always felt like the rug could be pulled out from under me at anytime. And coming from a racially mixed background, I always felt like I didn't really fit in anywhere"

Mariah Carey, Musician

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