loneliness Quotes

I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

The struggle of my life created empathy - I could relate to pain, being abandoned, having people not love me.

During the divorce process, I lived alone and tended to get extremely down on myself.

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

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

The most boring scenes are the scenes where a character is alone.

My books are always about somebody who is taken from aloneness and isolation - often elevated loneliness - to community. It may be a denigrated community that is filthy and poor, but they are not alone; they are with people.

Being lonely is not a bad thing for a writer.

Nobody's told me anything to date that I've been completely reviled by.