“I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 113 of 309
“When we feel left out, inadequate, or lonely, can we take a warrior’s perspective and contact bodhichitta?”
“(Title: To the Moon) Art thou pale for weariness Of climbing heaven, and gazing on the earth, Wandering companionless Among the stars that have a different birth,-- And ever-changing, like a joyless eye That finds no object worth its constancy?”
“A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.”
“I married him for a green card. We had a really great, caring relationship; it just obviously wasn't right for me.”
“Any sane person would have left long ago. But I cannot. I have my sons.”
“You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.”
“Being considered beautiful at a young age sends confusing signals. You think people only like you because of your beauty.”
“I get lost, sometimes. Days pass and this emptiness fills my heart.”
“Models are the most physically insecure women on the planet.”
“I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed, gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.”
“I worry that people will think that I have done what I've done just because I have access and resources. I hope people will know that I'm just as scared and lonely as anyone else!”
“If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss.”
“Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.”
“For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.”
“Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.”
“I am far more of a loner than people would imagine. But I am the most gregarious and socially interactive loner you ever met. The thing is, I am fascinated by people's stories and I'm very talkative and can't ever say no to anything or anyone, so I tend to over-socialize, to give away too much of my time to the many people I adore.”
“I want to care, but I don't. I look at you and all I feel is tired. I walk through school and all I want to do is leave. I wake up in the morning and don't know why I'm here. I feel like I'm not real.”
“He who hates himself is not humble.”
“We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence.”