Lonely Child Quotes:

Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.

- Heather O'Neill

topic: Lonely, Children, Lonely Child

I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

- George Orwell

source: George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Lonely, Children, Ambition, Lonely Child, Undervalued

Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.

- Maya Angelou

source: MAYA ANGELOU (1969). “I KNOW WHY THE CAGED BIRD SINGS”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Kingdom Come, Caged Birds

Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.

- Gore Vidal

source: Gore Vidal (1994). “Screening History”

topic: Lonely, Children, Book, Lonely Child

Orphans, dead parents, lonely children at Christmas, morose spoken word recordings, everything you love about the holidays. Move the turkey over so you can fit your head in the oven.

- April Winchell

topic: Christmas, Lonely, Children, Spoken Word, Morose

If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.

- Heather O'Neill

source: Heather O'Neill (2014). “Lullabies for Little Criminals”, p.46, Hachette UK

topic: Lonely, Children, Love You, Praying For You, Lonely Child

I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window,

- Deborah Moggach

topic: Lonely, Children, Rain, Lonely Child

Writing has always allowed me to escape. I was a very lonely child. Because I was very socially awkward, I would always have trouble making friends. And so reading and writing allowed me to have friends and to have an active imaginary life that really sort of kept me sane.

- Roxane Gay

source: "Roxane Gay Will Make You Proud to Be a Bad Feminist". Interview with Hannah Levintova, www.motherjones.com. July 24, 2014.

topic: Lonely, Children, Reading, Socially Awkward, Lonely Child

I had a bad time in school in the first grade. Because I had been a rather lonely child on a farm, but I was free and wild and to be shut up in a classroom - there were 40 children on those days in the classroom, and it was quite a shock.

- Beverly Cleary

topic: Lonely, Children, School, Lonely Child

True majorities, in a TV-dominated and anti-intellectual age, may need sound bites and flashing lights and I am not against supplying such lures if they draw children into even a transient concern with science. But every classroom has one [Oliver] Sacks , one [Eric] Korn, or one [Jonathan] Miller , usually a lonely child with a passionate curiosity about nature, and a zeal that overcomes pressures for conformity. Do not the one in fifty deserve their institutions as well magic places, like cabinet museums, that can spark the rare flames of genius?

- Stephen Jay Gould

source: Stephen Jay Gould (1995). “Dinosaur in a haystack: reflections in natural history”, Harmony

topic: Lonely, Children, Museums, Flashing Lights, Lonely Child