Mary Karr Quotes

I'm perpetually lonely.

The interesting thing is why we're so desperate for this anesthetic against loneliness.

We are all so much together, but we are all dying of loneliness.

It's no fun being lonely.

I think people are isolated and really lonely.

The problem with heartbreak is that nobody can help you when you're heartbroken. Nobody and nothing. Not the films you watch alone desperately searching for a character who feels the way you do, not the glasses or bottles of whisky you keep by your bed and certainly not Instagram.

A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.

Sometimes, the loneliness probably got to be too much and anyone seemed better than no one.

Oh, no, I think I'd die on my own. I'd be so lonely. Even at home, I'm lonely. I sit in my room and sometimes cry. It is so hard to make friends, and there are some things you can't talk to your parents or family about. I sometimes walk around the neighborhood at night, just hoping to find someone to talk to. But I just end up coming home.

People respond differently to people who are grieving. They reach out. But depression is so very isolating. It's hard to explain to anyone who has never been depressed how isolating it is. Grief comes and goes, but depression is unremitting.

At the risk of sounding like a spoilsport, I'd say that pagans have about the same experience of otherness and isolation as anyone else. We're not special in that regard. But this is because the problem of loneliness is almost universal - and that, to my mind, makes it much more serious.

You can't put abandonment and alienation under arrest.

I don't like being alone.

Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.

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

Loneliness is the ultimate poverty.

A big part of depression is feeling really lonely, even if you're in a room full of a million people.

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

We have a million ways to get ahold of people, and we're the loneliest we've ever been.

The only way I can cope is to lock myself in the bathroom and cry. Sometimes I sit there for hours and even eat my lunch sitting on the toilet floor. Anything to get peace and quiet.

Wherever you are in the world, whoever you are with, sometimes you feel desperately lonely.

I've actually read that isolation is the enemy, so why do that to myself?

Myself, I suffer from loneliness. And I think we all feel alone. I'm looking for stories that help people deal with loneliness and help them if they are monsters: they don't have to undertake monstrous actions. And maybe they're not monsters.

Loneliness can become a downward spiral.