Emma Forrest Quotes

I think the stigma surrounding mental illness and also the stigma surrounding self-esteem issues or insecurities or just even feeling different is something that doesn't really get enough attention. Everybody struggles with feeling alone or that they are going through something they don't quite understand.

It's no fun being lonely.

Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.

Everybody tends to think I'm crazy, which is the biggest problem in my life.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Some people say I'm unique, that there aren't other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don't come forward.

If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in poor company.

I can't go back and label myself as an outcast because I was a pretty well-adjusted kid, but I can certainly relate to the feeling of being an outsider.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

Loneliness is such an omnipotent and painful threat to many persons that they have little conception of the positive values of solitude and even, at times, are frightened at the prospect of being alone.

The most evil and insidious thing about mental illness is that it isolates us and makes us feel so different that we think no one can possibly relate.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.

There's a difference between loneliness and solitude. You pursue solitude, I think. But loneliness is a completely different isolating thing.

We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.

The reason I am thinking so far in advance is because school is terribly lonely. I think I've said that before, but it's getting harder every day.

I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

No one can endure his own solitude.

I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.

Everybody's having fun, except me I'm the lonely one I live in shame.

For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.