Quotes About Struggling Alone

#1. Shame works like the zoom lens on a camera. When we are feeling shame, the camera is zoomed in tight and all we see is our flawed selves, alone and struggling.(page 68)

Brene Brown

#2. [Art is] very great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone. This is why art is important. Art would not be important if life were not important, and life is important.

James Baldwin

#3. The mess of the human condition is that fundamental trust has not yet been realized. The true value of profound spiritual experience lies in the discovery of that fundamental trust.

Andrew Cohen

#4. The hopeless grief of those poor colored people affected me more than almost anything else.

Gideon Welles

#5. Let this be our beautiful departure from stagnation; let our minds come alive; enter another dimension; go beyond the stars eagerly struggling to find that ... which our naked eyes did not know existed; rise like a falcon born to soar and not be alone but be present amongst others.

Muhammad Iqbal

#6. If you know anyone struggling with his or her sexuality, the best thing you can do is be there for them, respect the process and treat them the same as you always would. It helps so much to know you're not alone.

Connor Franta

#7. Because policymakers often rely on think tanks' research when crafting laws and regulations, it's critical to know whether these organizations are truly independent.

Elizabeth Warren

#8. I guess, and it may be a flaw, that I think about rhythm more [than anything else]. I'm always wanting to find something unusual. I've started to try and write more traditionally, but for whatever reason, I tend toward trying to find something that sounds more like a pattern to me.

Dave Matthews

#9. The Obama 'stimulus' plan is a $1 trillion dollar gamble more suited to Las Vegas than Washington.

Cal Thomas

#10. Those struggling with life-threatening thoughts do not feel connected to others. They feel all alone- even alone in the midst of a crowd.

June Hunt

#11. [Francis of Assisi was one of the] signal figures who are catalysts for rapid change

Jon M. Sweeney

#12. A couple of days ago, I saw a rig big enough to haul that tanker. You wanna get outta here? You talk to me.

Terry Hayes

#13. Taft generally ate alone. Forever struggling to lose weight, he limited his midday meal to an apple or a glass of water.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

#14. I was trying so hard to be okay. I didn't want to be that girl, drifting in the water, lost and alone, wishing the tide would pull her out to sea. I was fighting to move forward, struggling to be better. But I didn't know how.

Rebecca Donovan

#15. Our strength lies, not alone in our proving grounds and our stockpiles, but in our ideals, our goals, and their universal appeal to all men who are struggling to breathe free.

Adlai Stevenson I

#16. What is the function that a clergyman performs in the world? Answer: He gets his living by assuring idiots that he can save them from an imaginary hell.

H.L. Mencken

#17. 'To Die For,' with Nicole Kidman, is great - her desire to be a part of news, how she uses news to further her career and how it can drive you insane. I love that movie.

Dan Gilroy

#18. When I'm making a movie, it's making use of my creative juices, and it fills me up with what really is - I think my purpose here is to tell stories.

Gerard Butler

#19. The story of the Baudelaires takes place in a very real world, where some people are laughed at just because they have something wrong with them, and where children can find themselves all alone in the world, struggling to understand the mystery that surrounds them.

Lemony Snicket

#20. Struggling alone, like the everyday and ending with the same fate.

M.F. Moonzajer

#21. Modern life. Where are we running? Sometimes what we want is not always where we are ... Are we alone? Is the real winter inside our hearts? We are all struggling for definition in a world that resists our increase.

Aziz Ansari

#22. My heart belongs to daddy.

Marilyn Monroe

#23. She is happy, for she knows
That her dust is very pretty

Dorothy Parker

#24. I had a blast, but I still wonder sometimes why they saw me as the perfect guy for this strange character.

Mike Myers

#25. If you are not envied, you are not enviable.

Aeschylus

#26. Set the goal and work all days for it, until you achieve, I want to be a champion, the best!

Kevin Durant