I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did.

Man alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.

In America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.

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.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

Some people can just let things go, but I can’t, especially if there’s something that worries me or makes me sad.

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.

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

We’ve been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can’t do – about what is impossible.

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.

What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

All of my friends who have younger siblings who are going to college or high school – my number one piece of advice is: You should learn how to program.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

I wanted to race cars. I didn’t like school, and all I wanted to do was work on cars. But right before I graduated, I got into a really bad car accident, and I spent that summer in the hospital thinking about where I was heading. I decided to take education more seriously and go to a community college.

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.

Football is a sad game.

When I left the University of Notre Dame, I honestly felt I would never coach again.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one.

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.

I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn’t going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I’ve ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn’t want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.

I was very depressed when I was 19… I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

I would be lying if I didn’t admit sadness that our wonderful airline is merging with another. Because I’m not American, the U.S. Department of Transportation stipulated I take some of my shares in Virgin America as non-voting shares, reducing my influence over any takeover. So there was sadly nothing I could do to stop it.

I have been a professor, and I have been a policymaker, and as a professor, you think in terms of truth or absolutes.

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.

It makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!

When I was two, a dragonfly flew near me. A man knocked it to the ground and trod on it. I remember crying because I’d caused the dragonfly to be killed.

We are rarely proud when we are alone.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

The sadness of the women’s movement is that they don’t allow the necessity of love. See, I don’t personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.

A professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.

I always felt an outsider.

It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.

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

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

Part of what made the Macintosh great was that the people working on it were musicians, poets, and artists, and zoologists, and historians. They also happened to be the best computer scientists in the world. But if it hadn’t been computer science, these people would have been doing amazing things in other fields.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

I’ve often felt depressed; everyone feels depressed.

When you are joyous, look deep into your heart and you shall find it is only that which has given you sorrow that is giving you joy. When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.

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

I was going to McDonald’s and Taco Bell every day. The kids behind the counter knew me – it wouldn’t even faze them. Or I’d sit up at Denny’s or Big Boy and just eat by myself. It was sad. I got so heavy that people started to not recognize me.

I now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.

What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

My friends, there are no friends.

After getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

I became an actress because my mom wanted me to become an actress. It took me until my mid-30s to realize I actually didn’t. I actually wanted to write and direct and be more involved in politics and humanitarian issues.

When the people you love are gone, you’re alone.

It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.

There’s nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child.

One may have a blazing hearth in one’s soul and yet no one ever came to sit by it. Passers-by see only a wisp of smoke from the chimney and continue on their way.

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

I got my first computer in the 6th grade or so. As soon as I got it, I was interested in finding out how it worked and how the programs worked and then figuring out how to write programs at just deeper and deeper levels within the system.

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. That’s the only way I can find an explanation for why 55,000 people would want to come see me sing.

The more I grow in popularity, the lonelier it gets. Because you don’t really know me. You just know this part of me. You fell in love with that. But it’s way more intricate than what meets the surface.

When I first went to places where people were suffering from war and persecution, I felt ashamed of my feelings of sadness. I could see more possibilities in my life.