A. E. Housman Quotes

Poor strangers, they have so much to be afraid of.

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.

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.

When I walked out of the seminary, I was 31, but I was like a scared, frightened kid. I had no place to live, no license, no clothes. I was just a lost soul.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

I know what it is like to feel vulnerable and fearful during a difficult time.

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.

I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

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

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

I had no friends. I worried a lot.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.

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

I can't be alone.

It's inevitable that you feel scared when you don't have control of a situation.

She had the perpetual sense, as she watched the taxi cabs, of being out, out, far out to sea and alone; she always had the feeling that it was very, very, dangerous to live even one day.

You're scared of what you can't control

She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone

In midair, dangling lost above the world.

It's a frightening world to be alone in.

It's the unknown that makes me feel the most vulnerable.

Leave me in the night but please don't leave me in the dark

I hate this fear. I hate this. I hate this world. I hate it that nobody needs me. I don’t own this world. I’ve had enough. It’s not supposed to be my fault. Only now.. Only now that I realized.. I hate this world now, living in this world where ‘promise’, ‘bond’ and ‘eternity’ don’t exist, and living in a world full fo strangers is a very, very scary thing. Scared that there’s no guarantee that I’ll be loved. You can’t be living with people surrounding you forever. You just cant. The world is too scary. - Akito

I don't like being in houses alone.