Difficult Emotions: Loneliness Quotes

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"He and Reagan were not at all alike, because Reagan is an optimist and Dick Nixon wasn't. Yet in some ways they were alike. Neither really liked to talk on the telephone, for instance. And, in a lot of respects, both of them were very much loners"

Lyn Nofziger

"The reason I am thinking so far in advance is because school is terribly lonely. I think I've said that before, but it's getting harder every day"

Stephen Chbosky, Novelist

"I feel like a big faker because I've been putting my life back together, and nobody knows"

Stephen Chbosky, Novelist

"Have you ever felt like a phone call that's been disconnected?"

Shannen Doherty, Actress

"I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else"

James Taylor, Musician

"I've found a place that would amaze you. People used to live there, but now it's all overgrown and no one goes there. Absolutely no one - only me... Just a little house and a garden. And two dogs"

Karel Capek, Writer

"It is about this very abstract sense of displacement that he feels the moment he turns off the television"

Atom Egoyan, Director

"I used to make my own food and ate on my own in my room"

Victoria Wood, Comedian

"Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"

Abigail Van Buren, Journalist

"I feel akin to the Platypus. An orphan in a family. A swimmer, a recluse. Part bird, part fish, part lizard"

Trevor Dunn, Musician

"Isolation is a self-defeating dream"

Carlos Salinas de Gortari, Statesman

"I have always used the world of make-believe with a certain desperation"

Ruth Benedict, Scientist

"Two of the cruelest, most primitive punishments our town deals out to those who fall from favor are the empty mailbox and the silent telephone"

Hedda Hopper, Actress

"In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be"

James Taylor, Musician

"The older I grow, the more I find myself alone"

Alberto Giacometti, Sculptor

"You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages"

Al Stewart, Musician

"There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself"

Aaliyah, Musician

"I have spent a lot of years on the outside, looking in"

Joseph Barbera, Cartoonist

"I thought it was something peculiar to me. I thought I was abnormal"

Louise Brown, Celebrity

"And now they are getting married, and I'm still single! What's wrong with me?"

Mark McKinney, Comedian

"Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone"

Winona Ryder, Actress

"I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal"

Terry Southern, Writer

"It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you"

Harvey Pekar, Writer

"I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create"

Yousuf Karsh, Photographer

"I think it's easy for people to assume that fame is equal to glory, but it can be a very isolating experience"

Sophia Bush, Actress

"Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone"

Goran Persson, Politician

"It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!"

Luigi Pirandello, Playwright

"I didn't really like the aloneness of doing stand-up"

Steve Buscemi, Actor

"There's this thing of you can live in a city and be completely alone, not notice anything going on around you"

Simon Pegg, Comedian

"I don't tend to think of these characters as losers. I like the struggles that people have, people who are feeling like they don't fit into society, because I still sort of feel that way"

Steve Buscemi, Actor

"No one really knows me. People think they know me"

Johnny Thunders, Musician

"I didn't choose solitude"

Klaus Kinski, Actor

"Nobody understands another's sorrow, and nobody another's joy"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"No one feels another's grief, no one understands another's joy. People imagine they can reach one another. In reality, they only pass each other by"

Franz Schubert, Composer

"I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman"

Claire Danes, Actress

"For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States"

Bill Sienkiewicz, Artist

"Fame doesn't end loneliness"

Claire Danes, Actress

"To be adult is to be alone"

Jean Rostand, Scientist

"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period, then you value human companionship. But you have to survive, and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing"

Wole Soyinka, Dramatist

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