Edie Adams Quotes

One of my biggest fears is thinking that there are people in my house when I'm home alone.

When I walked out of the seminary, I was 31, but I was like a scared, frightened kid. I had no place to live, no license, no clothes. I was just a lost soul.

Without a family, man, alone in the world, trembles with the cold.

Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you?

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 never feel more alone than when I'm traveling. Alone and, to some extent, helpless. The world expects a certain level of competence and can be merciless when this expectation is unmet.

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone.

I can't even say what my greatest fear is because I, I can't even imagine. Being without my family... I can't even say it because it makes me cry.

Weird people follow you in the streets, you can't sit alone in a restaurant or a cafe and read a book in peace, and I think everybody values those moments of being alone.

Don't go away. I don't want to be alone. I can't stand being alone.

I can't be alone.

Besides individual things like thunder and gunshots, what dogs fear most is not belonging, being alone.

Of course I had friends, but it was very limiting because there was always a chance that at every corner, someone would be laughing at me or waiting to beat me up. I had a very lonely childhood because of that.

People were following me home in cars, singing outside my window at my flat. I couldn't go to pubs or supermarkets or walk down the street. It was bizarre, but that was my life.

why won't they leave me alone? don't they realize I have a tinder heart and a paper body and that any spark will turn me straight to ash?

I don't like being in houses alone.

Bullies are just frightened people.

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

People come up to me all the time. If I'm with friends or in a crowd, I'm fine, but if I'm by myself, I get afraid because people are nuts.

Fear is a relative thing; its effects are relative to power.

Every time I went on TV I got a threat.

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.

I can't imagine anything worse than being just left alone, scared out of your mind.

Alone! Alone! No beacon, far or near! No chart, no compass, and no anchor stay!

My father died when I was seven. I guess I am interested in fatherlessness as a metaphor for vulnerability and unprotectedness. Being on your own in the world in a way you're not quite ready for, ever.