Learned Hand Quotes

You can run away from home But you can't run away from your pain I sit here alone There's always someone else to blame.

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.

I lost my sense of trust, honesty and compassion. I crashed down and became what I consider an emotional mess. I've never been so miserable in my whole life. I just wanted to go to bed and never get up.

Is there any stab as deep as wondering where and how much you failed those you loved.

A lot can change because you are embarrassed by something.

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

I've spent my life being embarrassed.

What I did, you know, being away from my family, letting so many people down. I let myself down, not being out on the football field, being in a prison bed, in a prison bunk, writing letters home, you know. That wasn't my life.

Victims always feel alone and helpless.

Nobody understands me, I'm really sensitive.

The feelings of my smallness and my nothingness always kept me good company.

Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

Shakespeare had found language for the agony of living with one's own mistakes. There were words for finding yourself isolated with your failures. Phrases for discovering that you were wrong, all, all wrong, wrong, wrong.

I didn't want to be the daughter of the crazy people.

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

I'm vaguely embarrassed by myself sometimes.

Share shame so you are not left alone with it. If you can't find another person, get a journal. I didn't say make a video on Snapchat. It's for you, not anyone else.

Everyone has their moments of solitude, difficulties, and vulnerability.

Kids will pick up on weakness, and I was very shy growing up. I was skinny and flat-chested; I didn't have the latest clothes. For me, it was about being left out and not having any friends and being laughed at. I was very lonely, but that happens to so many people.

Yeah, there's probably been times when I'm watching cable and seeing there's like three movies that Jack's in and I'm sitting hogging a bag of Cheetos in my underwear and I think 'God, what happened to me? Why can't I be something special like Jack?'

I spent a lot of time reading 'Cosmopolitan' and quietly crying.

We can experience an erosion of self-esteem when we're lonely, as we come to believe that it's because we're not likable or because something is broken inside of us. And that can just compound that loneliness further and further.

One of the reasons we stay so alone in our lives is because we're ashamed to talk about the hard stuff. It's as simple as that. We're all in pain in different ways, and we don't get the help we need because we're too ashamed to talk about the pain.

Just leave me alone. I'm not myself. I'm falling apart, and I don't want you here.

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.