Greta Garbo Quotes

I think I was a pretty anxious dreamer, maybe a fundamentally lonely kid.

During the first couple of years at school... I used to take my lunch and go down by the old fair grounds & sit alone by the side of the road & eat it... Those lovely, lonely lunches stick deep in my memory as unhappy times.

I didn't enjoy growing up. I was lonely. That's probably my base level to feel like that.

I used to isolate myself and be in my room by myself all the time.

I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right.

In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.

I am often lost in my own world, with a frown on my face.

I was an extremely reclusive and introverted boy.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

I had become shy of life's bustle in my solitary retreat and was apprehensive at the thought of facing the world.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.

I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.

Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

This great misfortune - to be incapable of solitude.

I am essentially a recluse who will have very little to do with people wherever he may be. I think that most people only make me nervous - that only by accident, and in extremely small quantities, would I ever be likely to come across people who wouldn't.

My day is spent hiding from people.

I can lack communication with people. I shy away from everybody. I always want to be alone.

Basically, I am an anti-social person.

A lot of my songs are about loneliness and losing relationships. Even the ones that are happy, there's a lonely undertone to them.

I wake up, go for dance class, and do the same things that I used to do. I am very asocial. I don't go out too often.

When I was growing up, I think I was expected to be seen and not heard. You're this little, nerdy kid; no one wants to hear about how sad you are. Nobody wants to hear that you feel lonely.

I was the shiest person you could think of. I didn't really speak. I was an only child, so most of my life I spent in my bedroom playing with toys by myself, speaking through them.

I was kind of a loner growing up.

Sometimes I go totally anti-social.

I could not forbear getting up to the top of a little mountain, and looking out to sea, in hopes of seeing a ship : then fancy that, at a vast distance, I spied a sail, please myself with the hopes of it, and, after looking steadily, till I was almost blind, lose it quite, and sit down and weep like a child, and thus increase my misery by my folly.