Nathaniel Branden Quotes

My face, my self, what would they mean to anybody? Just another stiff. So this self of mine passes some other's self on the street - what do we have to say to each other? Hey there! Hi ya!That's about it. Nobody raises a hand. No one turns around to take another look.

Loneliness is caused by an alienation from life. It is a loneliness from your real self.

She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk.

So often loneliness comes from being out of touch with parts of oneself. We go searching for those parts in other people, but there's a difference between feeling separate from others and separate from oneself.

I get so lonely sometimes, I could put a box on my head and mail myself to a stranger.

Living in Hollywood, you can get disconnected from everybody. You can feel like you are the only one.

I am not so different in my history of abandonment from anyone else after all. We have all been split away from the earth, each other, ourselves.

The way I spend my time is very isolated and cut off.

I don't have a lot of friends.

Isolation is a self-defeating dream.

You're standing onstage in a sold-out arena with people singing your music, and you feel like the loneliest person in the world. Because here's a party that, essentially, it's for you. And you still somehow feel like you don't belong there. Those people all have their lives and go back home.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.

I don't think you ever know in yourself whether you have gone mad. You exist in a bubble. There comes a point where you suddenly feel not really a part of the world, you're just passing through.

A man by himself is in bad company.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.

I'm perpetually lonely.

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

I've shut myself inside these walls, and I'm going to be a very lonely old lady if I'm not careful.

For a while I felt very alone; sort of out there in the world of comics, especially here in the States.

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.

From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.