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He didn't want Lucy to grow up feeling alone, surrounded by everything and having nothing.
Sep 29, 2025
I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.
Feeling alone guides the mind.
Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.
Feeling alone is what most likely sparked this way of thinking. Realizing that everyone (consciously or subconsciously) feels alone too - but no matter what, we're actually ALL together - is what has helped evolve my way of thinking about it. Life feels less lonely, and that's a big obstacle to overcome.
The lonely become either thoughtful or empty.
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.
What is meant to be, will always find its way. And when your down and feeling alone, just wanna run away, trust yourself and don't give up. You know you better than anyone else.
A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
When you're mired in the depths of depression, it's impossible to believe that anything can get better, but it can and it will. Seek out low-cost or free counseling. Get help and support from your community and stick with it until you can afford some fancy private shrink. Do anything. Join a church group if you have to. It doesn't have to be about religion, it's about not feeling alone. Also, do not be afraid to go to the emergency room. I've been there.
Life is a series of embarrassing moments which leave you feeling alone in your confusion and shame
All great composers of the past spent most of their time studying. Feeling alone won't do the job. A man also needs technique.
Ultimately what we actors are doing is communicating with people who are feeling alone or feeling different or confused or whatever and you're communicating and saying, "Hey, I don't get to know you, but here's a piece of me and you're not alone. We're in this together." Hopefully that communication has maybe made some people feel less alone.
Poetry is a way of being alone without feeling alone. It allows you to experience another mind, I suppose. And it does that more fully than other art forms, I think. It doesn't simply describe an experience, or a feeling, or a moment: it evokes it through, say, rhythm or tone or diction or metaphor. It creates a mood. A poem communicates before it is understood; it's not a fully paraphrasable form, which distinguishes it from other forms of writing.
The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.
Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely.
When they are alone they want to be with others, and when they are with others they want to be alone. After all, human beings are like that.
I was never less alone than when by myself.
It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone.
Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.
Either you will determine truth by your feelings or truth will determine your feelings. Be careful following feelings alone.
To whom can I expose the urgency of my own passion?…There is nobody—here among these grey arches, and moaning pigeons, and cheerful games and tradition and emulation, all so skilfully organised to prevent feeling alone.
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?
It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.
I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.
To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.
They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.
If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.
We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.
I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.
The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.
When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.
Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.
Sometimes life is too hard to be alone, and sometimes life is too good to be alone.
I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.
The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.
Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.
The idea that business is strictly a numbers affair has always struck me as preposterous. For one thing, I've never been particularly good at numbers, but I think I've done a reasonable job with feelings. And I'm convinced that it is feelings - and feelings alone - that account for the success of the Virgin brand in all of its myriad forms.
Our feelings alone don't change what happens with the police, what happens in jail, what happens when someone tries to go to the welfare office, the unemployment office, or any kind of state agency where a criminal record comes up for prostitution. How we feel about the commodification of sexuality and violence doesn't actually translate to those people's lives. A lot of the debate is really academic and a waste of time.
It is better to be alone than in bad company.