When exposed to a moving toy or a strange room, babies with cloth mothers rushed to them, buried their faces in the soft fabric and relaxed. Their peers, with only wire mothers, shook in terror against the wall. Left alone for months with only wire mothers, they pined away, staring at the world with…
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Quotes tagged ‘Loneliness’
I think what everyone’s desperate for is intimacy.
I know why they have holidays. They have holidays so people can get together and have fun. So why am I alone?
— Charles M. Schulz, Charlie Brown / Schroeder, Todd Barbee, imdb.com
I think that I was lonely and there was something about the drug that made me feel like I had a friend.
Bodies wanting other bodies. It’s just this.
I'm Irish. I think about death all the time. Back in the days when I thought of myself as a serious academic writer, I used to think that the only real theme was a fear of death, and that all the other themes were just that same fear, translated into fear of closeness, fear of loneliness, fear of di…
I can’t leave myself alone too long. My mind goes to a weird place if I’m not at work all the time.
Loneliness has followed me my whole life, everywhere. In bars, in cars, sidewalks, stores, everywhere. There's no escape. I'm God's lonely man.
You know the lonely in a room of people trope? Well, it's a cliché for a reason, though so many of us still find it hard to accept.
Sex addiction, people addiction, it’s the same thing. You’re really afraid to be on your own. Listen, how much sex do you really think you need when it comes down to it? It’s not about the sex. After my divorce, I realized, 'Oh, wow, I can go have sex.' And I was running around, picking up women. Th…
Nobody ever lies about being lonely.
— Daniel Taradash, James Jones, Pvt. Robert E. Lee 'Prew' Prewitt, Montgomery Clift, imdb.com
There's simply no way of knowing how lonely and empty he is or whether he's as vacant and barren and loveless as the rest of us are.
You will never know the exquisite pain of the guy who goes home alone.
James Bond: Moneypenny, what would I do without you? Moneypenny: My problem is that you never do anything with me.
Being the mayor isn’t the job that’s lonely.
— Greg Berlanti, Wendey Stanzler, Oliver Queen, Stephen Amell, imdb.com
When I stopped convincing myself that I was alone, I realized that I was surrounded — by human beings who just wanted to connect, and that was beautiful. That was when my healing began, that was when I started to realize that we need each other more than we will every truly comprehend.
Yes, they're sharing a drink they call loneliness.
Life on the outside is hard.
I'm not scared of death anymore; I'm scared of being alone.
It turns out at the end of the day, love is worth the risk. None of us can do this alone.
— Ray Utarnachitt, Morgan Faust, Zari Adrianna Tomaz / Isis, Tala Ashe, imdb.com