Carrie P. Meek Quotes

I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness.

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

One day you're racing about the business of life, harried but vital, a part of its machinery. Then gradually but inexorably you are left out, until one day you find the machinery tearing along without you - and nobody even notices.

The English language needs a word for that feeling you get when you badly need help, but there is no one you can call because you're not popular enough to have friends, not rich enough to have employees, and not powerful enough to have lackeys. It is a very distinct cocktail of impotence, loneliness and a sudden stark assessment of your non-worth to society? Enturdment?

Everybody's having fun, except me I'm the lonely one I live in shame.

I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

My friends sometimes used to ignore me completely, and that would really upset me badly.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

The individual couldn't find any attention in Italy.

Being sent away to school was no different from my biological mother giving me away.

I think the degree of alienation and despair is more universal.

Loneliness is, I think, people's biggest fear, whether they are conscious of it or not.

For who can bear to feel himself forgotten?

I'm perpetually lonely.

Alienation, I suppose, can't be hackneyed because it will always exist.

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

Forget sex or politics or religion, loneliness is the subject that clears out a room.

Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say.

We leave people alone when they need us most.

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

My wife gone, my mum gone, ostracised by my village. I was left all alone in life.

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.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.