Taboo Quotes

I'm not sure anyone goes through a cancer scare unchanged. I know it changed me in so many ways. But I was fortunate to have had a rare cancer that's slow-growing and one that allowed me to skip the chemical cocktails that would have put me into early menopause.

Never once, during any of my bouts of depression, had I been inclined or able to pick up a telephone and ask a friend for help. It wasn't in me.

Chemotherapy can be a long, tough haul - for me, it went on for six months - and the best doctors and nurses become, if only for that period of time, as essential in your life as friends or spouses.

Everybody's got so much of their own to deal with. They have no one to turn to.

When I realized I was depressed, then I started reading up about it. When I read that one in four people are depressed, I felt that I'm not the only one. I also felt that how many people must be feeling suffocated to fight this battle all alone. I just wanted to reach out and tell them that even I'm like you, and it's okay if you feel like that.

Loneliness is always there, it's a phase that comes and goes and it is a very difficult phase.

When I first came out, holidays were hard. I reached a point where I didn't go home anymore. I constructed my own, kind of like, family group around Christmas.

I've certainly felt alone a lot of my life.

Depression is real, and that really hit me hard. I was going through a phase where I wasn't talking to no one. Only my son. Me and my son would do stuff, but I was talking to no one.

Writing is such a damn lonely sickness.

Believe me, I know what it's like to feel all alone...the worst kind of loneliness in the world is isolation that comes from being misunderstood, it can make people lose their grasp on reality. - Sienna Brooks

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.

Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)

Nobody loves you when you're down and out.

Loneliness was tough, the toughest role you ever played. Hollywood created a superstar, and pain was the price you paid.

Loneliness is something you can't walk away from.

...loneliness is not a function of solitude.

You don’t know what it’s like to be alone until you’ve had someone inside your head.

If you're going through a dark period, remember that you're not alone.

The more I swear I'm happy the more I'm feeling alone

Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?

So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you.

There are times when I am convinced I am unfit for any human relationship.

She stays in the same spot, anchored by the profound, desperate loneliness of a bad relationship.

Loneliness is the theme, and I play it like a symphony, in endless variations.