“The greatest tragedy of being a Third Culture Adult is not being misunderstood, but never being seen at all.” — Camellia Yang Copy Share Image
All I wanted to do was collapse into someone's arms and cry today... but there wasn't anyone there to catch me. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I'm not lost. Or not lost much. Lonely. It is that and I don't know what to do.” — Eimear McBride Copy Share Image
“But, I was lead to believe that loneliness was only a minor fracture of why I wanted to be his.” — Valerie King Copy Share Image
“It is my opinion that the isolated mind loses its purchase on reality all too easily and becomes prone to fantasy.” — Frank Tallis Copy Share Image
When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness. — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
When I decided to be a singer, my mother warned me I'd be alone a lot. Basically we all are. Loneliness comes… — Whitney Houston Copy Share Image
Bare heights of loneliness...a wilderness whose burning winds sweep over glowing sands, what are they to HIM? Even there He can refresh… — Amy Carmichael Copy Share Image
A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a… — Bernard Malamud Copy Share Image
“It is most comfortable to be invisible, to observe life from a distance, at one with our own intoxicating superior thoughts. But… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Isolation means a lack of growth. I grew up in China at a time when the country was completely isolated. That era… — Zhang Xin Copy Share Image
“But most of those to whom Ender's Game feels most important are those who, like me, feel themselves to be perpetually outside… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“They were lonely and sad people, all three of them, and they would not make one another less sad, but they could,… — Yiyun Li Copy Share Image
“Loneliness is the biggest enemy of a human. Cause it is more than the enemy. When a person becomes lonely from inside,… — Salman Aziz Copy Share Image
Now you will feel no rain, for each of you will be shelter for the other. Now you will feel no cold,… — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
No one is alone in their troubles; there is always someone else thinking, rejoicing, or suffering in the same way, and that… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don't know what I'm doing in Santa Teresa," Amalfitano said to himself after he'd been living in the city for a… — Roberto Bolaño Copy Share Image
The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size… — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
“I walked for an hour and then returned by a different route to wait out the weekend. It was one of those… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Isolation, not solitude, breaks men. If I could not find the means to deal with the isolation, then my options were severely… — Shawn Thompson Copy Share Image
We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third,… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
“I lead a double life. I'm John Wayne Gacy. I present myself in potentially awkward social situations as a laughing, colorful clown… — Anne Clendening Copy Share Image
