Rainer Maria Rilke Quotes

We can't expect everybody to be there for us, all at once. So it's a lucky thing that really, all you need is someone.

All I have are the people.

I never want to feel too far away from people. I think that's when you get in trouble.

Are you alone?" So that's what this call was about. For some reason, the question made my throat tighten. "No," I said, "Elvis is here. Would you like to talk to him?

So many of us are reaching out, hoping someone out there will grab our hands and remind us we are not as alone as we fear.

You can't live entirely alone. You have to have some kind of a support system.

Laugh, and the world laughs with you: Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own.

It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

At the end of the day, we're just trying to prevent each other from going mad.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely.

How we need another soul to cling to.

If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.

People are going to come into your life that need you, and being there for them makes the day worth living. People are going to come into your life that you need, and that's the really crazy thing.

Friendship is one of the most tangible things in a world which offers fewer and fewer supports.

There's a lot of people out there who go through hard times, and they feel alone. They feel like nobody is there. But I'm in the same boat.

We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

I get tired too, just like everybody else. Sometimes I tell people that, but all I get is people saying that being vulnerable and weak is just not like me. I rarely get the response of emotional support I want. But sometimes I need it.

Understand that everybody has their own struggles, regardless of whether you can see it or not. Just surround yourself with the people who love you, and know you're not really alone.

I feel as if sometimes women can't deal with what's going on and they have no one around who actually understands.

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Life is relationship, living is relationship. We cannot live if you and I have built a wall around ourselves and just peep over that wall occasionally. Unconsciously, deeply, under the wall, we are related.

I think people are isolated and really lonely.