Libba Bray Quotes

All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. But now I'm not lonely any more.

In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the poor fellow who walks away with the greatest number of letters, proud of his extensive correspondence, has not heard from himself this long while.

I wonder if I shall ever see her again, and I realize that I scarcely care. I can feel the sheets beneath me, and the cold air on my chest. I feel fine. I feel absolutely fine. I feel nothing at all.

Usually there's no specific reason for loneliness - it's a broad feeling.

I would have done anything to feel real again.

There is no wilderness. There is only our inability to fill the emptiness in which we live.

Outcast on a cold star, unable to feel anything but an awful helpless numbness. I look down into the warm, earthy world. Into a nest of lovers' beds, baby cribs, meal tables, all the solid commerce of life in this earth, and feel apart, enclosed in a wall of glass.

Dena had always been a loner. She did not feel connected to anything. Or anybody. She felt as if everybody else had come into the world with a set of instructions about how to live and someone had forgotten to give them to her. She had no clue what she was supposed to feel, so she had spent her life faking at being a human being, with no idea how other people felt. What was it like to really love someone? To really fit in or belong somewhere? She was quick, and a good mimic, so she learned at an early age to give the impression of a normal, happy girl, but inside she had always been lonely.

I think everybody gets lonely sometimes. I don't know if people can ever understand how you can be in a room full of people and be lonely sometimes.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

You know that day after day of, Oh God what am I going to do with myself feeling? The fear of the emptiness that it implies keeps me going.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

I've always felt lonely, even if I'm in a great relationship or surrounded by my friends and family.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

It is sad when people can't connect, and the sense of desperation that you feel when there is nothing to look forward to.

I was working in cartoons. I could go to Comic-Con, buy the Hal Jordan ring, I could buy animation cels, but at the end of the day, I come back to an empty apartment. I had a life that was only around me, and when I was broken, my world was broken.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

The years rolled slowly past and I found myself alone. Surrounded by strangers I thought were my friends, I found myself further and further from my home.

The shadows of the room pool in the lines of our faces, draining our eyes of hue. "There's nothing left worth saying.

Men fear silence as they fear solitude, because both give them a glimpse of the terror of life's nothingness.

As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.

Moving makes you feel all alone inside.

A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.

Even in this world where you’re getting everything you need and having this nice life, there’s still loneliness and longing and disconnection.

Loneliness Got a mind of its own The more people around The more you feel alone