Marilyn Monroe Quotes

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

I would have given up acting in a minute. I didn't like how it set me apart from other people.

Now when I enter a carriage, it almost empties. But there's always one brave enough to stay.

When I go to a party, nobody says hello. But when I leave, everybody says goodbye.

I never had had a large group of friends, so I often felt a little out of place and like I was in a different mindset from everyone else around me because I was so focused on my acting career.

Saying that you spend Christmas alone is, to most middle-class Americans, akin to confessing a terminal illness.

Everyone in life knows what it's like to be picked on and to feel like an outsider.

When I was in Paris I was at a big club in a major city, but nobody really cared about each other. It didn't have that family feeling, I didn't see any team spirit.

Sometimes, in my adult life, I have memories of when I was young and really scared of being too close to people.

I was a loner; I spent the first half of high school alone.

I didn't make a lot of friends in high school. It's a cruel time, and I was very geeky.

There's a tremendous sense of shame that people who are lonely feel. I say that as someone who felt ashamed of being lonely as a child and even at points during adulthood.

A lot of the time in modern Britain, certainly in urban life, we barely have any contact at all with the people around us.

I thought it was great being the only girl in the room. I loved the attention. After I got used to it, I didn't want to be the only girl in the room. I had no one to talk to.

Full of men, vacant of friends.

Every woman I had ever met who walked through the world appraised and classified by an extraordinary physicality had also received the keys to an unbearable solitude. It was the coefficient of their beauty, the price they had to pay.

Sucks to be left out of adolescence, sort of like getting locked in the closet on Venus when the sun appears for the first time in a hundred years.

If one's different, one's bound to be lonely.

I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

There is no desert like being friendless.

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

People were really staying away from me. And that's kind of when I split up with all my best friends at school - they were going, "Something's happened to her, she's totally weird" - and found my new friends, who were Beatles fans.

I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were

I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.

Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.