#lonely

I thought that if I owned nothing, had nothing, was nothing, I would have nothing left to lose, and I wouldn't be scared anymore. Because my whole life I’ve been so damn scared. Scared to live because I was scared to die. But at the same I was so scared of living, so I wanted to die. Or maybe so scared of dying that I refused to live. You don't have to be afraid to fall, when you're already on the ground. You don't have to be scared to lose someone, when there's no one around to lose. ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#afraid-to-die #alone #freedom #homeless #journey

I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely, I am lonely. How appropriate that I write this to myself. ↗

— Richard Paul Evans

#friends #friendship #lonely #sad #friendship

Lonely people have enthusiasms which cannot always be explained. When something strikes them as funny, the intensity and length of their laughter mirrors the depth of their loneliness, and they are capable of laughing like hyenas. When something touches their emotions, it runs through them like Paul Revere, awakening feelings that gather into great armies. ↗

— Mark Helprin

#intensity #laughter #loneliness #lonely-people #funny

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. ↗

— David Levithan

#lonely #love #romance #life

Sometimes you need to be alone in order to reflect on life. Take time out to take care of yourself. You deserve it. ↗

— Robert Tew

#life-quote #lonely #quotes #quotes-to-live-by #self-worth

There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm. ↗

— Wes Anderson

#everybody #feels #how #i #i think

Modeling is a lonely business... You don't speak. You don't really portray anything but an image... the business is so superfluous about dealing with the outside, it messes with your mind. ↗

— Kim Alexis

#anything #business #dealing #image #lonely

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely. ↗

— Tori Amos

#different personalities #feel #i #lonely #many

I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between lonely aliens in a hostile world. ↗

— Russell Baker

#began #between #coded #gave #hostile

I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#achieve #alcohol #bigger #childhood #dreams