Quotes About Being Alone Without Family

#1. Consuelo: Away from them, I realised that they formed a circle, or rather a net in which they were enmeshed together. I was the only one out of it. Being near them only made me feel more alone.

Oscar Lewis

#2. Am I alone in this mother-food connection or does being with your mom trigger the sudden and voracious need for large amounts of mac & cheese, rice pudding, and the scraps along the side of a bowl of cookie dough?

April Paine

#3. He doesn't think of himself as the him that exists in this moment but as the him that will exist soon. He is not far away from the him that he really is. He will be that version of himself very soon.

Joseph Fink

#4. He knew well the singularly strange sensation of loving one's family to distraction, and yet not feeling quite able to share one's deepest and most intractable fears. It brought on an uncanny sense of isolation, of being remarkably alone in a loud and loving crowd.

-Anthony's thoughts

Julia Quinn

#5. You have to fight to reach your dream. You have to sacrifice and work hard for it.

Lionel Messi

#6. This last year ... I learned something about family. Like it's not about blood alone. It's being connected ... it's growing up together and loving each other. It's believing in the same God and knowing you'd do anything for the person across from you at dinner.

Karen Kingsbury

#7. Necessitous men are not free men.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#8. Regardless of how many people I surrounded myself with, no matter how many friends and family I loved and was loved by in return, I was alone at the moment of being born and at the moment of dying. Nobody came with you and nobody went with you. It was a journey of one.

Karen Marie Moning

#9. The advance and perfecting of mathematics are closely joined to the prosperity of the nation.

Napoleon Bonaparte

#10. I'm not crazy about having lots of time to myself. Whenever I come back from filming away, I immediately want to go and see my friends and my family and re-establish my life. I can fill time when I'm alone, but I love being around other people.

Emilia Fox

#11. I decided to play it cool but there was one big problem with that. I wasn't cool.

Kristen Ashley

#12. Her solitary nature means she needs a family to keep her from loneliness my gregarious nature means I will never have to worry about being alone ...

Elizabeth Gilbert

#13. I am by no means alone within the family or the company in being ashamed and sickened by Roger Ailes's horrendous and sustained disregard of the journalistic standards that News Corporation, its founder and every other global media business aspires to,

Matthew Freud

#14. If we're really writing, we are exploring the unnamed emotional facets of the human heart. Not all emotions, not all states of mind have been named. Nor are all the names we have been given always accurate.

Ron Carlson

#15. I tour alone. There's no sound check, no back up. I stay with the hosts; I am in a family home and it's really nourishing. I just have to remember after the show not to run out into the living room in my pyjamas. Every day, it's a new relationship being built. It's odd and wonderful.

Jane Siberry

#16. Men love to be the first to read the newspaper in the morning. Not being the first is upsetting to their psyches.

Rita Rudner

#17. Dominion is a spy novel, a love story, and also I hope gives some sense of the difficulties faced by dissidents under any totalitarian regime: the threat of imprisonment, torture and death; the threat to one's family, the terror of being alone in a hostile world.

C.J. Sansom

#18. Drugs are fine for you alone at home, but when it comes to being a family, which a band is, it just messes everything up.

Zachary Cole Smith

#19. Yes, I have cancer and it might not go away, but I can still have a future because life goes on.

Kris Carr

#20. That's been hard being away from the family, because Washington can be lonely. When you tune out of all the activity, that's like, you're alone.

Erik Paulsen

#21. Being alone is easier than having a family. When you have a family, you are responsible to each other. It's easier to navigate the world without that burden.

Zachary Jernigan

#22. Photography's about the surface, what's happening at the top of the sea. Literature's about all the stuff below.

Max Pam