“My parents are both from Vermont, very old-fashioned New England. We heated our house with wood my father chopped. My mom grew all of our food. We were very underexposed to everything.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 276 of 309
“I had a pretty poor self-image for a long time. I broke into acting as a model in New York. I was never anything like a "supermodel," but I made a living at it for a couple years. The thing was, I was convinced that I was tricking everyone into thinking I was attractive.”
“I think I always had joie de vivre. But I had pretty bad self-esteem growing up and much of my adult life.”
“When I was a model, actually, for a little while, my friend that I worked with a lot, she had horrible self-esteem too. We decided that the exact moment when we actually thought we were attractive, we wouldn't be anymore. We would just, like, miss it.”
“It's a lonesome walk to the sidelines, especially when thousands of people are cheering your replacement.”
“But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness.”
“There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals.”
“In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.”
“I was neglected by my family because I had disappointed them - I'd run away from being forced into an arranged marriage, which was a big blow to them.”
“I was... the loser of my class. I had absolutely no friends.”
“I'm sorry if my traumatized life is an inconvenience to you and your perfect existence.”
“I hold my face in my two hands. No, I am not crying. I hold my face in my two hands to keep the loneliness warm - two hands protecting, two hands nourishing, two hands preventing my soul from leaving me in anger.”
“Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness.”
“You may never be less alone than when you are alone.”
“Every man's friend is no man's friend.”
“We were living in the Slad Road when my father left us. I was about three.”
“You probably don't think twice about going into your kitchen and turning a few knobs to prepare a meal for yourself and your family on an electric or gas range. But for nearly 3 billion people in developing countries who depend on solid fuels to cook their food, the simple act of cooking results in 4 million premature deaths every year from exposure to toxic smoke.”
“It's harder to be a poor person than anything else.”
“It's these parallel universes when someone you love is sick. Your world is this completely foreign place involving radiation and tumor markers. Outside, people are buying sweaters.”
“I'm surprised I wasn't sent to therapy in the childhood to be honest. I think my parents must have gotten a kick out of it.”