Linda Thompson Quotes

Don't put celebrities up on this pedestal. We are human beings.

In our society, in our culture, we love to build people up. We love to build the pedestal, and we love to put 'em up there on it, and then we can't wait for the day they fall off of it.

There is nothing more alone than being in a car at night in the rain.

Loneliness, she thought, was craving for other people's company. But she did not know that loneliness can be an unnoticed cramping of the spirit for lack of companionship.

Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.

A lot of times, people think they're the only ones that feel a certain way.

Loneliness... has very little to do with location. It's a state of mind. In the centre of every city are some of the loneliest people in the world... because our whole planet was just outside the window, I felt even more... connected to the seven billion other people.

The more man realises his humanity, the lonelier he feels.

Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.

There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.

Did you ever walk through a room that's packed with people, and feel so lonely you can hardly take the next step?

It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close to each other. You're far better off having someone to sleep next to then having someone to sleep with because you have to trust someone you sleep next to.

What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.

I find it really frustrating when people go, "I want to be famous and glamorous like you."

He can't really love anyone, you know, and in the end such people are always alone, no matter how much other people once loved them.

We all know people who are ridiculously famous, and it's a scary thing because all of the sudden people - even the people you are close to - stop being honest with you, stop telling you the truth.

God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.

The one thing I’d learned was that having someone with you all the time did not take away the loneliness. You could be surrounded by people and be lonely. Something was missing. I could almost pinpoint it, but right when it was within my grasp I forgot; it just slipped away.

Everybody has a camera on their phone these days, everybody wants a selfie or a picture, and the moment one person starts taking a picture everybody congregates around so I've become quite a fast walker. I don't like saying, "No," to people but by walking fast one might be able to avoid the first photo.

I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

the lonliest sound in the world is other people making love.

When you're famous, no one looks at you as a human anymore. You become the property of the public.

Even people within a relationship can be really alone, and then have to go outside of it in order to find something, whatever it is. It may be very bizarre and maybe something very tender.

This city desert makes you feel so cold. It's got so many people, but it's got no soul.

I'm surrounded by people and feel alone.