George Monbiot Quotes

I was regarded as the school freak which further reinforced a lot of inhibitions and doubts I had about myself. I was a shy, frightened teenager for a long time.

In junior high school, I was an object of pure ridicule for my dress, withdrawal, and asocial manner. Dozens of times, I saw individuals laugh and smile more in ten to fifteen minutes than I did in all my life up to then.

School was a very cruel environment, and I was a loner. But I learnt to get hurt, and I learnt to cope with it.

I liked Columbia, but it was like high school in that there was this big social world that I was not part of. I existed on the side, far away. That might be temperamental, my own fear of large groups, more than anything else. But I had a handful of professors who meant a lot to me.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

In school, I was the quietest girl ever! I had a lot of trouble in school. Kids were mean to me.

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.

I know just how isolating it can feel to experience severe anxiety.

In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.

I was writing from the age of 10, and I was never really into going to discos and dances and stuff. I never told anyone at school that I did that because I feared it would alienate me even more.

I had trained myself not to go to the bathroom throughout my elementary and junior high school years because I was bullied. And you don't understand why you're being bullied, so you just suppress it.

I was very awkward as a kid. I was a square trying to fit into a circle and it never worked for me. The harder I tried, the harder I fell. For some reason I was a real target and I got beat up and called names.

If you are a card-carrying human being, chances are that you share the same fear as all other humans: the fear of losing love, respect and connection to others. And if you are human, in order to avoid or prevent the pain, trauma and perceived devastation of the loss, you will do anything to avoid your greatest fear from being visited on you.

I was a bit of a loner as a teenager. I never went to a single social event, because they terrified me.

When I was in middle school, we had moved from Texas to Orange County. I didn't fit in, and it was pretty lonely.

I'm a sponge. I sometimes don't want to go out of my house because it's like, 'Who's going to make me cry today?'

I was a very repressed young person. I wasn't good at school. I didn't fit in.

I was picked on as a kid. I had a nose the size of a softball plus braces and acne. It was rough.

I wasn't bullied or anything, but I didn't really fit in.

School was unbelievably painful. It was five years of being pretty sad.

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that.

The fact is, it wasn't enjoyable being in secondary school. I was a weird kid.

Growing up, I was the awkward, chubby kid. I had a few close friends, but I was the first one to be bullied.

I have experienced loneliness at many, many points in my life and felt this profound sense of shame about it - all the years when I was a child that I struggled with feeling lonely when I was scared to go to school and petrified of walking into the elementary school cafeteria because I was worried I wouldn't have anyone to sit with.

I didn't make a lot of friends in high school. It's a cruel time, and I was very geeky.