Don Edwards Quotes

I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court. Being alone in the dark is something I don't like.

I used to like going out so much, and now I can't get myself to leave home.

I'm not some weirdo depressed daughter that's afraid of the world - that locks herself in her room all day.

I was really worried that sitting at home by myself in front of a computer was going to make me crazy.

Being home alone at night makes me a bit nervous. If I'm at home alone, I have to sleep on the sofa - I can't face going to bed. I'm there with the TV on and all the lights on. I'm not very brave about anything in life. In tennis, yes. In everything else, not very.

I'd just like to be able to walk outside as everyone does and enjoy time with my friends, not feel bad for not wanting to take a picture.

You're always tellin' me to go out more, Go ahead, get out and see the world, But then I think, why should I? I'd rather stay home and cry.

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting.

Leave home? It's quite a scary thought. I'm not the most independent person and that's the result. When you're always surrounded by people it becomes quite normal.

I have no physical courage, I've asked for a double.

I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

I have a pathological fear of being on my own. When I'm with my own thoughts, I start to unravel myself, and I start to think really dark thoughts, self-destructive thoughts.

There was about two years where I was more or less agoraphobic and didn't deal with anybody, didn't talk to anybody, didn't have any friends at all.

The work I like to do is the work I'm most afraid of.

I am not brave. I am very weak. I am trying to overcome my problems. I do cry, I do break but I think that's normal.

It's a little nerve-wracking to stand up on stage all by yourself.

In my early days depression did inhibit me because I was too debilitated and terrified to tell anyone why I couldn't get on a train from Manchester for auditions in London.

Though we are more prosperous a nation and more connected a global community than ever before, many of us still feel lonely, disoriented and uncertain of the future.

We are living in dystopia, in a world that is dominated by technology and disconnect, alienation, loneliness, and dysfunction.

Faced with ostracization at school and confinement at home, I turned to karaoke.

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.

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.

Solitude is the mother of anxieties.

We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.