Shonda Rhimes Quotes

Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

People who were born alone are defined by feelings like "Who's gonna be with me when I die? Who will ever understand me? Will I always feel so alone? Maybe if I write a book..." and you forget that that doesn't help you so much.

You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.

I say I like to be alone, yet I am always surrounded by people.

I have always been very interested in the idea of loneliness and the presumption that romantic relationships are supposed to rid you of that.

Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.

Sometimes I dread loneliness more than bores. Other times, the reverse.

Maybe we had just gotten too used to being alone-- and maybe that needed to change.

The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think?

One of the oldest aches in the bones of humanity is loneliness. I mean it's one of the things that goes way back; loneliness is not good for the world. And so, whoever you are, gay or straight, it is totally normal, natural, and healthy to want somebody to go through life with. It's central to our humanity.

I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

We walk alone through this world, but if we're lucky, we have a moment of belonging to something, to someone, that sustains us through a lifetime of loneliness.

In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well... I wasn't entirely alone... It's not possible to sleep alone.

I write because I want to end my loneliness. Books make people less alone. That, before and after everything else, is what books do. They show us that conversations are possible across distances.

I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.

When we are most alone is when we embrace another's loneliness.

It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.

The pain of loneliness seems to be part of the mortal experience. But the Lord in His mercy has made it so that we need never deal with the challenges of mortality alone.

Times may have changed, but there are some things that are always with us - loneliness is one of them.

I like being alone and I think this movie, as much as it is an investigation of connection and people bonding, I also think it's just as much about loneliness.

Only solitary men know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything.

For me, books have always been a way to feel less alone while being alone. Perhaps if I was depressed and isolated, just communicating with these authors through their sentences helped me.

No one really wants to admit they are lonely, and it is never really addressed very much between friends and family. But I have felt lonely many times in my life.

If loneliness is part of our essence, that is, our essential nature, that is only because of the way, in practical terms, we actually exist; that is, the way we move and work and live in the world.

If you have a friend, things are better than if you didn't have a friend.