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.
Mark ZuckerbergMusic was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Maya AngelouOne 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.
Vincent Van GoghMy friends, there are no friends.
Coco ChanelAll 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.
Mark ZuckerbergEven a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.
Carl JungAfter getting out of the service and going into baseball I never wanted to do anything else.
Bob UeckerThere is no sadder sight than a young pessimist.
Mark TwainDreams have only one owner at a time. That’s why dreamers are lonely.
Erma BombeckI’ve never thought about songwriting as a weapon. I’ve only thought about it as a way to help me get through love and loss and sadness and loneliness and growing up.
Taylor SwiftThe glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.
George H. W. BushI 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.
George LucasI 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.
Lady GagaMy peers, lately, have found companionship through means of intoxication – it makes them sociable. I, however, cannot force myself to use drugs to cheat on my loneliness – it is all that I have – and when the drugs and alcohol dissipate, will be all that my peers have as well.
Franz KafkaI’ve done many ads because that’s my new career. It’s an inspiring extension for my mind.
Karl LagerfeldWhen the people you love are gone, you’re alone.
Keanu ReevesIt is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
Oscar WildeAlas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!
William ShakespeareWhen 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.
Angelina JolieYears ago I met Richard Burton in Port Talbot, my home town, and afterwards he passed in his car with his wife, and I thought, ‚I want to get out and become like him‘. Not because of Wales, because I love Wales, but because I was so limited as a child at school and so bereft and lonely, and I thought becoming an actor would do that.
Anthony HopkinsWhen so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.
Tennessee WilliamsA sad soul can kill quicker than a germ.
John SteinbeckI didn’t want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.
Steven WrightI believe that everyone experiences depression to some degree at some time in their lives. And there are probably millions of people who live with a low level of sadness and heaviness day in and day out.
Joyce MeyerWhen you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that’s when I think life is over.
Audrey HepburnA professor must have a theory as a dog must have fleas.
H. L. MenckenPart 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.
Steve JobsThe South is very beautiful but its beauty makes one sad because the lives that people live here, and have lived here, are so ugly.
James BaldwinThe worst times were the years I was alone. The image to the public entering the courtroom was eight men, of a certain size, and then this little woman sitting to the side. That was not a good image for the public to see.
Ruth Bader GinsburgI have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.
Henry David ThoreauI now make my living by being impolite. I am clumsy at it.
Kurt VonnegutI stay out of politics because if I begin thinking too much about politics, I’ll probably… drop writing children’s books and become a political cartoonist again.
Dr. SeussI was planning to go into architecture. But when I arrived, architecture was filled up. Acting was right next to it, so I signed up for acting instead.
Gilbert K. ChestertonI didn’t want to become a professor or get tenure or teach or anything. All I wanted to do was get a degree because Louis Leakey said I needed one, which was right, and once I succeeded I could get back to the field.
Jane GoodallIt is better to be alone than in bad company.
George WashingtonI didn’t get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.
Huey NewtonWhen 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.
Khalil GibranIt makes me sad when I find sisters who aren’t joyful. They might smile, but with just a smile they could be flight attendants!
Pope FrancisSadness is but a wall between two gardens.
Khalil GibranI met Howard Zinn in 1961, my first year at Spelman College in Atlanta. He was the tall, rangy, good-looking professor that many of the girls at Spelman swooned over.
Alice WalkerWhen Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.
Marilyn MonroeI don’t want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
Audrey HepburnThe display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaFootball is a sad game.
George BestMan alone is born crying, lives complaining, and dies disappointed.
Samuel JohnsonIn America, the professor talks to the mechanic. They are in the same category.
Noam ChomskyI became a people-watcher when I lost all my friends when I was 12.
Taylor SwiftI will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.
Elon MuskI 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.
Anthony HopkinsI always felt an outsider.
J. K. RowlingAh, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
Albert CamusPart of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac AsimovThe word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.
Carl JungNobody knows me.
George BestIf I lost my job, I’d get a job at McDonald’s.
Robert KiyosakiSitting 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.
Taylor SwiftFew are drawn to the person whom others avoid and neglect; people gather around those who have already attracted interest.
Robert GreeneWhen 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.
Jane GoodallWhat loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
George EliotLoneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Mother Teresa