Whitney Wolfe Herd Quotes

I always feel like I'm missing out on something, that someone is having more fun than I am, so I take measures to make sure that is impossible.

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

I envy the happiness of others... I envy the sense of belonging... I seem always to be remaking myself.

You feel like everyone hates you if you've got a good life, now I feel maybe it's allowed because I've had my share of sadness.

They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left. Amber, watching him, was suddenly struck with panic. Now he was going--out again into that great world with its bustle and noise and excitement--and she must stay here. She had a terrible new feeling of loneliness, as if she stood in some solitary corner at a party where she was the only stranger. Those places he had seen, she would never see; those fine things he had done, she would never do. But worst of all she would never see him again.

I suddenly feel left out of a future that isn't even going to happen.

To envy is to draw circles that isolate us from others, to take small, bitter trips that diminish the traveler.

I could not take lightly the idea that people made love without me.

I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.

Fear can make you do more wrong than hate or jealousy. If you’re afraid you don’t commit yourself to life completely; fear makes you always, always hold something back. You shouldn’t be alone. It’s killing you; it’s undermining you. All the time, every day, you should be somewhere with people.

An entire life of solitude contradicts the purpose of our being, since death itself is scarcely an idea of more terror.

It has been strange to me to return to life and to feel that I have any sympathy with human beings, after the long interval of quiet and indifference which succeeded my marriage.

You were one person alive and your brain was encased in a skull. There were other people out there. It took effort to be connected.

They were like people who run to meet, holding out their arms, but their aim is wrong; they pass each other and keep running.

Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.

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.

There was nothing lonelier than a man with a million friends.

Life is loneliness, broken only by the gods taunting us with friendship and the odd bonk

Next to the joy of the egotist is the joy of the detractor.

You got all your friends, I got a TV set.

I'm not a spiritual person at all, but I do think that the world doesn't have to be as lonely as it is.

People are islands,' she said. 'They don't really touch. However close they are, they're really quite separate. Even if they've been married for fifty years.

I don't know. Sometimes, I feel nothing, and I'm so afraid. Afraid I'll stop feeling anything at all. I'll just slip away inside myself...I just need to feel something" A Great and Terrible Beauty, Page 177, by

Did you ever feel like the whole world was going to a party and your invitation got lost in the mail?

I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.