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50 Painfully Honest Quotes About The Reality Of Loneliness

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Becca Martin
August 10, 2016
“The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald: A New Collection
Tagged: Falling Apart, Lonely, Loneliness
“In case you didn't know, dead people don't bleed. If you can bleed-see it, feel it-then you know you're alive. It's irrefutable, undeniable proof. Sometimes I just need a little reminder.”
— Amy Efaw, After
Tagged: self-harm, Blood, alive
“His eyes missed her as much as the rest of him.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Eleanor & Park
Tagged: Miss you, Heartbreak, Pain, Love, Relationships, Dating, Loneliness, Longing, separation
“But as the years passed, he missed her more, not less, and his need for her became a cut that would not scar over, would not stop leaking.”
— Dennis Lehane, Shutter Island
Tagged: Miss you, Heartbreak, Pain, Love, Relationships, Dating, Loneliness, Longing, separation
“Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.”
— Douglas Coupland, Shampoo Planet
Tagged: Loneliness, Life, Lonely
“It pains me sometimes but it also heals me. It floods my eyes with tears but it also brings out my depth, my talents, my kindness and my strength. It makes me weak until it makes me strong, it almost kills me before it brings me back to life.”
— Rania Naim, Maybe Loneliness Is Not So Bad After All
Tagged: Loneliness
“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.
And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.”
— Paulo Coelho, Manuscript Found in Accra
Tagged: Loneliness, Solitude
“I want to drag knives over my skin, just to feel something other than shame, but I'm not even brave enough for that.”
— Paula Hawkins, The Girl on the Train: A Novel
Tagged: Depression, self-harm, Bravery
“I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.”
— Ned Vizzini, It's Kind of a Funny Story
Tagged: Depression, nightmares, Sleeping
“There are wounds that never show on the body that are deeper and more hurtful than anything that bleeds.”
— Laurell K. Hamilton, A Shiver of Light (A Merry Gentry Novel)
Tagged: wounds, Depression, Pain
“That's the thing about depression: A human being can survive almost anything, as long as she sees the end in sight. But depression is so insidious, and it compounds daily, that it's impossible to ever see the end.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Tagged: Depression, Survival, humans
“If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather.”
— Stephen Fry, More Fool Me: A Memoir
Tagged: Depression, Questions, Friendship
“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it's a healthy feeling. It is a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.”
— J.K. Rowling, The Ivory Tower and Harry Potter: Perspectives on a Literary Phenomenon
Tagged: Depression, Sadness, Feelings
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.”
— Jennifer Niven, All the Bright Places
Tagged: Pain, Suffering, disease, Depression
“I've got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and self-loathing.”
— D.D. Barant, Dying Bites (Bloodhound Files) by D. D. Barant (2012-06-29)
Tagged: Guilt, Self-Loathing, Depression
“Mental illness is so much more complicated than any pill that any mortal could invent.”
— Elizabeth Wurtzel, Prozac Nation
Tagged: Mental Illness, Depression, Pills, cures
“Depression is like a bruise that never goes away. A bruise in your mind. You just got to be careful not to touch it where it hurts. It's always there, though.”
— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Marriage Plot: A Novel
Tagged: Depression, Pain, Suffering
“I don't want to do anything. I don't even want to start this day because then I'll just be expected to finish it.”
— Rainbow Rowell, Fangirl: A Novel
Tagged: Depression, Living, Life
“The hardest thing about depression is that it is addictive. It begins to feel uncomfortable not to be depressed. You feel guilty for feeling happy.”
— Pete Wentz, Hyperbole and a Half
Tagged: Depression, addictive, Guilt, Happiness
“It’s not only about sadness. In truth, sadness really has little to do with it. Depression is pain in its purest form and I would do anything to be able to feel an emotion again. Any emotion at all. Pain hurts, but pain that’s so powerful that you can’t feel anything anymore, that’s when you start to feel like you’re going crazy.”
— J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never
Tagged: Sadness, Depression, Feelings, emotions
“Once you start down the slippery slope of depression, it's hard to climb off of it. And sometimes you don't want to climb off of it.”
— Keary Taylor, What I Didn't Say
Tagged: Depression, Change, Survival
“When you’re surrounded by all these people, it can be lonelier than when you’re by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don’t feel like you can trust anyone or talk to anybody, you feel like you’re really alone.”
— Fiona Apple, The Healing Angel Within
Tagged: Lonely, Depression, Trust
“I think it all comes down to feeling lonely and unloved.”
— Anja Nillsson, Living In A Rich City And Being Poor
Tagged: Sadness, Loneliness, Living Abroad, Living Skills, Compassion
“There’s nothing like that feeling of waiting for a guy. It’s the loneliest feeling in the world. Holding that cell phone in your hand as you take out the trash, use the bathroom, change the litter box. Fearful that the one second you aren’t looking will be when they call. Pathetic. And something I have done as recently as last week.”
— Hilary Winston, My Boyfriend Wrote a Book About Me: And Other Stories I Shouldn't Share with Acquaintances, Coworkers, Taxi drivers, Assistants, Job Interviewers, Bikini Waxers, and Ex/Current/Future Boyfriends but Have
Tagged: Waiting, Lonely, Fear, pathetic
“I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it.”
— Demi Lovato, Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year
Tagged: strength, Finding Strength, Battling Depression, Battling Mental Illness, Mental Illness, Saving Yourself, Finding Yourself, Depression, Happiness, Love Yourself, Scars
“Life is precious and it's what you do with it that keeps you alive on the inside. It's not enough just to live and take that gift for granted. Each one of us has fears, but the more we work to overcome them, the more we are able to enjoy our lives.”
— Demi Lovato, Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year
Tagged: strength, Finding Strength, Battling Depression, Battling Mental Illness, Mental Illness, Saving Yourself, Finding Yourself, Depression, Happiness, Love Yourself, Overcoming Obstacles, Overcoming Fears
“Change the negative, self-loathing thoughts to positive, self-affirming ones. When you’re positive about yourself and everything around you, you begin to see the world in a different light. Your life today is what you make of it.”
— Demi Lovato, Staying Strong: 365 Days a Year
Tagged: strength, Finding Strength, Battling Depression, Battling Mental Illness, Mental Illness, Saving Yourself, Finding Yourself, Depression, Happiness, Positivity
“Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with the feeling that they are all alone in the world, and that nobody loves them now and that nobody will ever love them...The best thing to do in these circumstances is to wake somebody else up, so that they can feel this way, too.”
— Lemony Snicket, Horseradish
Tagged: Love, True Love, Loneliness, Heartbreak
“Deep depression is due to a problem with brain chemistry, not a problem with inner weakness.”
— Karen Salmansohn, 15 Positive Quotes For When You're Depressed- Karen Salmansohn
Tagged: Don't Give Up, Depression, Brain, Weakness, strength
“I can feel you through your lonely eyes, and I hope one day you'll understand how everything that hurt us was everything that made us who we are.”
— R.M Drake, R.M Drake Collection
Tagged: Lonely, Hope, One Day, hurt, Made You Who You Are, R.M Drake