Philip K. Dick Quotes

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

I'm not good at relationships I always manage to find the flaws sometimes in others but mostly my own. I foretell the ending then go and create the cause save myself and end up alone

Even at age 10, I already knew that I was different from most people. My anxiety disorder was still years from being diagnosed, but it affected me quite deeply. I was too afraid to speak out in class, too nervous to make real friends.

Because I am basically so insecure and anxious and afraid, I never, ever in my life learned to reach out for help, ever.

Though we are more prosperous a nation and more connected a global community than ever before, many of us still feel lonely, disoriented and uncertain of the future.

Sometimes, in my adult life, I have memories of when I was young and really scared of being too close to people.

Save me from the ranks of the freaks who suspect they can never love anyone.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

With what all these people are saying, do you think that anybody wants to be around me? They all think that I did this on purpose? That I knew that I was positive, for so many years? I feel now that I'm going to be attacked if anybody sees me or if I go to the office.

I don't like being left to my own thoughts.

Sometimes I think I'm the craziest person on the planet.

I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them.

The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.

There were times when I've not wanted to be in my own skin, and that's a very scary feeling.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

I had no friends. I worried a lot.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

I never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

I thought I wasn't attractive or talented anymore. I cried easily and was depressed and removed. I became emotionally insecure about what the second half of my life would bring. I was angry, scared, frightened and lonely.

I don't like being alone.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.