Aaron D. O'Connell Quotes

I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

I'm perpetually lonely.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

I studied well, and I was the leader among my friends. However, I started losing interests in everything, and started becoming more and more awkward from some point.

I like swimming or go to the gym, but I am alone a lot, and that can get a little depressing.

The main thing that triggered my depression was my isolation that was imposed on me by becoming the wife of the prime minister, and leaving my home, my family. I was young, very young, and very naive and very hopeful and enthusiastic about my wonderful new life, but it was the loneliness and the lack of being able to properly relate to people.

I was so unhappy during the last months on 'Bonanza' I was really neurotic. I was anti-social.

I was miserable at uni. There were months at a time when I wouldn't leave the house unless it was to buy food. I lost a lot of friendships. I later lost jobs because of my mental health.

Even a manically depressed robot is better to talk to than nobody.

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

I have no relationships and I'm, like, sad sometimes.

We don't function well as human beings when we're in isolation.

I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.

Never having alone time is real tough on people.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

I just became a vegetable for three months. I couldn't talk to people. I was very ill and that was part of the reason I left college.

I suffer depression only in the sense that I am a writer. We don't have proper jobs to go to. We are on our own all day. Show me a writer who doesn't get depressed: who has a completely stable mood. They'd be a garage mechanic or something.

My bed isn't made, I'm tired, I haven't slept well for two weeks. I haven't been laid in a month. I don't have a girlfriend. I have a warrant for my arrest.

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

The world is becoming nicer and easier, but that doesn't mean we are any less lonely or any more connected.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

It's so easy for me to fall back into depression. I think it comes with having money. I don't have to work. I could be sitting bored and depressed at home with a bag on my head.

Single parenting is sometimes just a case of sitting around by yourself in mild despair, not knowing what to do.

I'd dropped out of high school without really doing it on purpose - I'd just go home at lunch 'cos I didn't have friends, then stay there all afternoon listening to rap. It got to the point where I wouldn't have passed even if I'd gone back. I was depressed, basically.