Vladimir Nabokov Quotes

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.

Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

There's a great deal of scientific evidence that social connectedness is a very strong protector of emotional well-being, and I think there's no question that social isolation has greatly increased in our culture in, say, the past 50 years, past 100 years.

Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say.

Loneliness is always there, it's a phase that comes and goes and it is a very difficult phase.

Loneliness is a huge issue for both individuals and for society. It's taken a long time for the issue to be treated seriously and for us to begin to understand the impact it can have.

Myself, I suffer from loneliness. And I think we all feel alone. I'm looking for stories that help people deal with loneliness and help them if they are monsters: they don't have to undertake monstrous actions. And maybe they're not monsters.

I've certainly felt alone a lot of my life.

In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

You have good days and bad days, and depression's something that, you know, is always with you.

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.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

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

Loneliness: there is no organ that can take it all.

You don’t know what it’s like to be alone until you’ve had someone inside your head.

My mind is a neighborhood I try not to go into alone.

I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between the don't-do-acid and don't-drink-and-drive films. I wish our counselors had told us, 'When you grow older a dreadful, horrible sensation will come over you. It's called loneliness, and you think you know what it is now, but you don't. Here is the list of the symptoms, and don't worry—loneliness is the most universal sensation on the planet. Just remember one fact—loneliness will pass. You will survive and you will be a better human for it.

Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.

Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

loneliness has its own needs!

The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.

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.

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

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