Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Feeling alone and unseen can intensify the experience of being harassed, shamed, or bullied.

Honestly, not being well received makes me feel very vulnerable. Not being included or regarded highly enough makes me crazy.

The only thing worse than having no friends is being pitied for having no friends.

I have never been So insulted in all my life I could swallow the seas To wash down all this pride First you run like a fool Just to be at my side And now you run like a fool But you just run to hide.

These people picked you up and played with you and then left you lying in the rain

When the suicide arrived at the sky, the people there asked him: "Why?" He replied: "Because no one admired me.

My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.

I get really very upset when I'm voted out, and I feel very disappointed.

This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine's cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.

Pain can be alleviated by morphine but the pain of social ostracism cannot be taken away.

I was told so many times when I was a kid, 'I can't be friends with you, you're too intense, you're too sad all the time.' I really thought that when I made the first album that everyone would understand me, all the people who weren't my friends would become my friends.

People would get up and leave so they would not have to sit anywhere near me.

Even close people left me - I was hurt by them and felt there was nobody who understands me, which made me fall apart.

Many people feel that if they're lonely, that means that they're not likable or that they're broken in some way.

I remember specifically, for me, as a kid growing up or as a young teenager, if I ever cried or got upset in front of anybody, I would be so humiliated.

Nobody would want their lowest moment to be filmed for the world to see.

I didn't know many people in London and became depressed, ending up in therapy. One day, the therapist called me Josh instead of Jacob, and I was mortified. I was telling this woman things I'd never told anyone, and she didn't even know my name.

I was extremely timid and to be made to feel that I was not wanted, although in a place where I had every right to be, even months afterwards caused me sometimes weeks of pain. Every time any one of these disagreeable incidents came into my mind, my heart sank, and I was anew tortured by the thought of what I had endured, almost as much as the incident itself.

Thanks a heap coyote ugly. This cactus-gram stings worse than your abandonment.

Why should i care? Cause you werent there when i was scared. I was so alone.

I felt like a piece of trash. I felt dirty and I felt used and I was disappointed.

I'm overwhelmed by shame that the people who had the responsibility to take care of the tender ones violated that trust and caused them great pain.

When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind.