Himesh Patel Quotes

I may not have gone to high school every day, but I spent whole a lot of my adolescence feeling vulnerable and confused and alone... just like everybody else.

I was a very isolated teenager.

Growing up in the '80s in central New Jersey as a weird kid with a blue mohawk listening to the Sex Pistols and dressing really funky, I was bullied pretty badly. It was every single day in elementary school and kept going into middle school, too. I felt totally alone, without a single person there for me.

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.

As a teenager at high school, I felt like an outsider.

I lived in a state of rage from 12 to 20. Until college, I was beyond an outsider. I was a voyeur of life.

I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

All my friends were doing just dumb stuff that kids do, like making out with people at parties and starting to date... I didn't know any gay people growing up or any queer people growing up, and so I just really felt alone and kind of lost, and I just wasn't experiencing life.

Fame is very isolating. It changes your reality.

The story of 'Mr. Robot' is really about this guy who's lonely - who's alone and feels so disconnected from the world.

What defines loneliness is our internal comfort level.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world, that's why I've withdrawn from it.

There is a huge sense of loneliness as people leave villages and move to cities. It's hard to find that human connection as you move away from where you started.

Even in the presence of others he was completely alone.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

I grew up a misfit. I never fit in.

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

I don't have any social life or anything.

Oh, I do get lonely, yes.

I never really had any close friends in India, and I felt a terrible loneliness and isolation for many years. Westernized Indians don't like my books and I tend not to like westernized Indians - so we're quits.