I always felt an outsider.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.

Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.

Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.

I don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.

Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

You’re imperfect, and you’re wired for struggle, but you are worthy of love and belonging.

Above all, this country is our own. Nobody has to get up in the morning and worry what his neighbors think of him. Being a Jew is no problem here.

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

I have to admit I’ve found myself doing the same things that a lot of other rock stars do or are forced to do. Which is not being able to respond to mail, not being able to keep up on current music, and I’m pretty much locked away a lot. The outside world is pretty foreign to me.

In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

I want everybody to understand that I am an American Negro first before I am a member of any political party.

I don’t like being alone.

There are few things more dreadful than dealing with a man who knows he is going under, in his own eyes, and in the eyes of others. Nothing can help that man. What is left of that man flees from what is left of human attention.

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

I am in the world feeling my way to light ‚amid the encircling gloom.‘

I don’t think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It’s lonely out here.

I’ve felt like an outsider all my life. It comes from my mother, who always felt like an outsider in my father’s family. She was a powerful woman, and she motivated my father.

The answer I found is you stay away from the people who make fun of you, and you join these ad hoc groups who understand your craziness.

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone’s singing about that feeling, you feel bonded to that person.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.

When I was a child, there’s one thing I said: ‚I never want to be alone.‘ That’s what I would say. I don’t want to be alone.

At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn’t allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn’t do anything with my classmates.

I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

When you get to a place where you understand that love and belonging, your worthiness, is a birthright and not something you have to earn, anything is possible.

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

Most of the confidence which I appear to feel, especially when influenced by noon wine, is only a pretense.

I’m perpetually lonely.

With my childhood, it’s a wonder I’m not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

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

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

I really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.

If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.

‚Trilogy‘ was more of a claustrophobic body of work. Before it was released, I hadn’t left my city for 21 years, and I had never been on a plane, not once. I spent my entire life on one setting; that’s probably why pieces of the album feel like one long track, because that’s what my life felt like. It felt like one long song.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

Israel is following policies which maximise its security threats… policies which choose expansion over security… policies which lead to their moral degradation, their isolation, their delegitimation, as they call it now, and very likely ultimate destruction. That’s not impossible.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking.

It seems to me that terrestrial beings, as they become more autonomous, psychologically richer, shut themselves up in a way against one another, and at the same time gradually become strangers to the cosmic environment and currents, impenetrable to one another, and incapable of exteriorizing themselves.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

It’s better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone – so far.

I don’t care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members.

I’d always somehow felt slightly as if I’d been born in the wrong country.

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering – and it’s all over much too soon.

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

I found that with depression, one of the most important things you could realise is that you’re not alone.

Nobody knows me.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

I’d like to be the last person alive in the world! Yes, I’d like to know what happens.