Florence Nightingale Quotes

I never was coddled, or liked, or understood by my family.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was.

I hate both of my parents right now: for sitting quietly in our house, while out in the darkness my heart was beating away all of the seconds of my life, ticking them off one by one until my time was up; for letting the thread between us stretch so far and so thin that the moment it was severed for good they didn't even feel it.

I am dead to them, even though I once flowered.

What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.

When she needed help most, she was abandoned.

The entire time I was in Portland, which was the five years, I had absolutely no contact with any of my family.

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

I can't say it's not painful being estranged from most of my family. I wish it could be otherwise.

We leave people alone when they need us most.

I have this morbid fascination with being completely alienated from everybody, and a lot of the time I really do feel that way.

I don't know what's the matter with me, why I'm so adept at distance, why I feel so remote from things, why life feels like a rumor.

To feel abandoned is to deny the intimacy of your surroundings.

Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.

One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices.

If naebody care for me,I'll care for naebody.

There were people everywhere but no one was mine, and I was no one's.

He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.

Solitude does not consist in living alone; it consists in living with others, with people who take no interest in you.

I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach.

Stephen Blackpool fall into the loneliest of lives, the life of solitude among a familiar crowd. The stranger in the land who looks into ten thousand faces for some answering look and never finds it, is in cheering society as compared with him who passes ten averted faces daily, that were once the countenances of friends

I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.

I am nothing. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night, floating all alone. I reach out, but no one is there. I call out, but no one answers. I have no connection to anything.