Jane Fonda Quotes

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

When the people we love stop paying attention, trust begins to slip away and hurt starts seeping in.

People who have trouble finding acceptance and love in their life settle for whatever they can get.

The first thing that happens to someone with a mental illness, in the throes of it, is that they lose all their self-esteem. They don't think they fit in.

I never ran away, but I was very unhappy as a teenager. I felt like a complete nonentity, and I very tangibly have memories of not wanting to be here - in my body.

Self-esteem and identity are very fragile things. I think a lot of times, those are the motivations for why people do take their own lives - not being seen, not being recognized, not being loved, not feeling supported, not feeling understood.

A teenager usually wants to try to get people to notice him in some way, to feel like someone gives a damn. Me, all that attention, I just wanted to fade into the background. Be invisible. Disappear.

Is that what I've become, a piece of meat?

I do have a family, and I do have friends, and so-called friends, and acquaintances, and many other people I see only around Christmas time. Maybe they could vouch for me. Maybe they could testify to my existence and save a part of me that thinks I'm no better than a bag of potato chips.

I didn't like anything about myself - my looks, my personality. I was very, very angry.

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.

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

When you believe in yourself, and you always give 100% in a relationship, you're very confident in the value of your love. But for some people, there's that feeling that the grass is always greener.

I was a very, I think, lonely kid, very introspective. I felt very much at odds with my environment and my culture... Probably a genetic flaw. I can't really explain it.

If I'm honest I don't think the world would miss me if I never acted again.

I've done a lot of partying in my time because I didn't want to go home and I didn't know what to do.

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 think all teenagers feel alone, and that nobody else knows what they are going through and all that sort of stuff.

It was the worst period of my life. I had all this gigantic acceptance as a kid, and all of a sudden there was this monumental rejection.

I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.

Depression is when you have lots of love, but no one's taking.

There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

I had low self-esteem. I just really wanted attention and love from somebody.