Michael Jackson Quotes

I spent a lot of time alone; I left school to be tutored. So, most of my companions were animals. It's as simple as that. I knew more animals than I did people.

I don't remember ever feeling lonely; in fact, on the rare occasions when I met other children I found their games and their talk far less interesting than the adventures and dialogues I read in my books.

I was always a bit different. I had a very happy childhood, but I could never hang on to mates.

I've been an important star and lived a full life, yet I only hve three close friends. I guess that's all anyone can expect.

I really only have a few friends.

I'm not the kind of guy who has best friends.

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

I never spent much time with people my own age.

Without siblings you get quite a skewed vision of yourself and of the world. I always felt I didn't understand how it worked. I remember feeling quite lonely.

When the crying child is immediately isolated, and it is explained to him at the same time that whoever annoys others must not be with them, if this isolation is the absolute result and cannot be avoided, in the child's mind a basis is laid for the experience that one must be alone when one makes oneself unpleasant or disagreeable.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

Back when I was in elementary school, I didn't have many friends.

I didn't play with other children.

I remember that I used to mix with my friends who had brothers and sisters. I was an only child.

You know, I don't understand how a man goes through life without any friends.

I don't need friends.

We can all understand that feeling of being alone in the world trying to find ways to not be alone.

The more specific you are about a very general feeling of loneliness is actually how you connect with people.

What I do remember about first grade and that year was that it was very lonely. I didn't have any friends, and I wasn't allowed to go to the cafeteria or play on the playground. What bothered me most was the loneliness in school every day.

I would watch 'Sesame Street' and see neighborhoods and kids with other kids to play with, and I just didn't have that. You know, we were on a lake. We just didn't have that stuff.

I didn't get to go to school functions growing up. I didn't get to go to dances. I was never invited to a party ever. Until I got to college and threw a party, I had never even been to one.

I don't really have a best friend.

Well, being the youngest child and frail, I was left alone a great deal of the time.

I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.

I don't have many friends so the phone doesn't ring and no one's asking me to go out and go dancing with them.