David Foster Quotes

He is also a victim of some injustice; he usually tries to be alone, in order to show his pain to others.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?

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.

To be without sympathy is to be alone in the world--without friends or country, home or kindred.

For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.

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

Strange that grief should now almost choke me, because another human being's eye has failed to greet mine.

Honestly, humans are social creatures that really crave intimacy, and I think that the friends I have who are trying to somehow go it alone are suffering 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.

The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.

She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

In the country of pain we are each alone.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

But there is a discomfort that surrounds grief. It makes even the most well-intentioned people unsure of what to say. And so many of the freshly bereaved end up feeling even more alone.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

The principal contributor to loneliness in this country is television. What happens is that the family 'gets together' alone.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Remember, the burden of sorrow is doubled when it is borne alone.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

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.

So many people suffer from abuse, and suffer alone.

We're really all alone. We can't ever get inside another person's spirit, and see the world they do. So we are alone in that sense. The only way we have to communicate feelings is through words.