Jeanne Marie Laskas Quotes

The problem with the loneliness I suffer is that the company of others has never been a cure for it.

Misery no longer loves company. Nowadays it insists on it.

One major challenge within happiness is loneliness. The more I've learned about happiness, the more I've come to believe that loneliness is a terrible, common, and important obstacle to consider.

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

Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.

Loneliness doesn't have much to do with where you are.

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.

Solitude is pleasant. Loneliness is not.

I'm perpetually lonely.

I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.

Chronic pain can be very lonely. It can have a shame-based quality.

Solitude vivifies; isolation kills.

When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

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

Far from 'rotting my brain,' as I was often told would happen, TV helped me feel less alone at a time when I spent so much time alone.

I think cruelty is just loneliness disguised as bitterness.

"Cammie!" I'll never forget the tone of Macey's voice in that moment. "Cam," she said slowly, moving toward me, "I know how it feels to be watched every second of every day. I know what it's like to trust fewer and fewer people until it seems like you are completely alone in the world. I know you think the only things that are left in your life are the bad things. I know what you're feeling, Cam." Her hands were on my shoulders. Her blue eyes were staring into mine. "I know."

The walls of isolation are not as solid as your suffering makes them seem.

So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

I don't know how much longer I can keep going without a friend. I used to be able to do it very easily, but that was before I knew what having a friend was like.

If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not.

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?

I think the busiest people are often the loneliest.

To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact.