Edgar Rice Burroughs Quotes

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

And then when all around grows dark, when we feel utterly alone, when all men right and left pass us by and know us not, a forgotten feeling rises in the breast.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty.

The most terrifying thing I can think of is being alone - and I mean utterly alone, like no one else in the world alone - at night. That's the nucleus of the first story in my collection and it's also where the title came from for the book.

I can't watch scary movies right now, because living on my own, it kind of freaks me out.

There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

I had a fear of being alone.

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.

When I was a kid, dealing with trying to discover myself, I didn't have anybody to talk to. I didn't have any Internet and didn't have any friends. You felt very alone and very frightened.

I think I was a pretty anxious dreamer, maybe a fundamentally lonely kid.

Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

It is not pleasant to come upon Death in a lonely place at midnight.

The truth is that life is hard and dangerous; that he who seeks his own happiness does not find it; that he who is weak must suffer; that he who demands love will be disappointed; that he who is greedy will not be fed; that he who seeks peace will find strife; that truth is only for the brave; that joy is only for him who does not fear to be alone; that life is only for the one who is not afraid to die.

Anyone who knows how scary it is to be alone, can't help loving others." ~Rin Sohma

Do you sometimes look up from the computer and look around the room and know you are alone, I mean really know it, then feel scared ?

There are ghosts in the room. As I sit here alone, from the dark corners there They come out of the gloom, And they stand at my side and they lean on my chair.

It's a frightening world to be alone in.

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between hermit and bitter misanthrope.

... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust.

Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?

The tyrant now Trusts not to men: nightly within his chamber The watch-dog guards his couch, the only friend He now dare trust.

Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.

No longer will you be a weird Robinson Crusoe, imprisoned on an island of night surrounded by oceans of death.