Janis Ian Quotes

You're always tellin' me to go out more, Go ahead, get out and see the world, But then I think, why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry.

We can experience an erosion of self-esteem when we're lonely, as we come to believe that it's because we're not likable or because something is broken inside of us. And that can just compound that loneliness further and further.

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

I remember secretly going off and crying. All of a sudden I'm being blocked and have to be intimate in a scene, and I'm going, 'I can't even look people in the eye very well. How am I ever going to do this?'

We all have times when we go home at night and pull out our hair and feel misunderstood and lonely and like we're falling. I think the brain is such that there is always going to be something missing.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

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

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 was a quiet teenager, introverted, full of angst.

Many feel the need to hide their problems from their school friends, work colleagues and even members of their own family.

When you feel low and down, you don't know whom to talk to and go out with.

When you're growing up, it's very easy to feel lonely and insecure.

There's a tremendous sense of shame that people who are lonely feel. I say that as someone who felt ashamed of being lonely as a child and even at points during adulthood.

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

He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone.

You can run away from home But you can't run away from your pain I sit here alone There's always someone else to blame.

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.

Being with friends felt like a burden. I remember just sobbing.

I was paralyzed with fear. It was unbearable to be among other kids who were just standing around being fine. It was one of the many inconveniences of this paradox I lived with -the more people I was surrounded by, the more frighteningly alone I felt.

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved.

I'm shy. I'm not sociable. I'm very insecure.

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

Let's face it. No kid in high school feels as though they fit in.

My childhood, I would say, was a bit sad. Society resents that.

After that I couldn't show my face outside. I lost my identity and balance. I was still living with my parents, and they were my only friends. For so many people, this thing with the nurse was confirmation that I must be mad or mentally ill.