I do remember when I was starting acting, going from one set to the next, with not much else going on in my life. And at the end of the day, you get back to your hotel room and just feel this awful loneliness, because the cameras have stopped rolling.
Anger is a manifestation of a deeper issue... and that, for me, is based on insecurity, self-esteem and loneliness.
Oh, this absolute loneliness and the game - loving to play the game, loving to go and tell stories to men that certainly weren't true, just for the sport of it, just to see how they would react.
Many of my characters struggle with loneliness, that is fair to say.
I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.
In my adolescence, I think I felt very outcast; I felt lonely. I felt great loneliness, and sometimes I wouldn't partake in Christmas, and I would go off and wander in the streets of Melbourne.
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.
We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.
Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.
If you are afraid of loneliness, do not marry.
Our language has wisely sensed the two sides of being alone. It has created the word loneliness to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word solitude to express the glory of being alone.
The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon.
Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.
Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me, and drench me in loneliness.
I don't fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.
People should be conscious of the large contribution made by anything that gets people together easily in the reduction of loneliness and emotional well-being.
Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.
As much as we complain about it, though, there's part of us that is drawn to a hurried life. It makes us feel important. It keeps the adrenaline pumping. It means I don't have to look too closely at my heart or life. It keeps us from feeling our loneliness.
I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness.
Everyone desires relationships and community. Most people want to belong to a cohesive, like-minded group. It staves off loneliness. It promotes identity. These are natural and very human instincts.
What makes loneliness an anguish is not that I have no one to share my burden, but this: I have only my own burden to bear.
Online communities are an expression of loneliness.
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.
Hostility comes from loneliness, from not seeing yourself like a drop falling into the ocean of humanity like everyone else.
The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
Writing is an antidote for loneliness.
Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness, except greed.
Social acceptance, 'being liked,' has so much power because it holds the feelings of loneliness at bay.
A woman who is willing to be herself and pursue her own potential runs not so much the risk of loneliness, as the challenge of exposure to more interesting men - and people in general.
I wanted Jesus in 'A.D.' to be very, very, very human - to have those qualities of vulnerability and doubt and pain and sadness and loneliness. Once the resurrection happens and we see that Jesus has risen, it's almost complete, right? It's all about the joy and the smile and the happiness and the closeness to the disciples.
Wars often begin with enthusiastic vigor but typically settle into costly, dirty business characterized for soldiers by fear, frustration, and loneliness.
Loneliness sucks. It's a slog. It feels wonderful and exhilarating when someone makes it go away. But love is a whole different ball game.