“Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 10 of 309
“Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.”
“Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant.”
“You will never be able to find happiness if you stay attached to the wrong person and don't move on.”
“The thought of these vast stacks of books would drive him mad: the more he read, the less he seemed to know — the greater the number of the books he read, the greater the immense uncountable number of those which he could never read would seem to be…. The thought that other books were waiting for him tore at his heart forever.”
“The afflicted are not listened to. They are like someone whose tongue has been cut out and who occasionally forgets the fact. When they move their lips no ear perceives any sound. And they themselves soon sink into impotence in the use of language, because of the certainty of not being heard.”
“I'm just a simple guy swimming in a sea of sharks.”
“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
“As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.”
“Lonley, Vaguely pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children.”
“Where I lived, it was a cold mining place, a village called Dunston. The only time you saw a Rolls-Royce was when somebody died.”
“The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion.”
“You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.”
“Smiling is the best way to face every problem, to crush every fear, to hide every pain.”
“In the depths of every heart there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and the revelry above may cause us to forget their existence.”
“When I was about 9, I had polio, and people were very frightened for their children, so you tended to be isolated. I was paralyzed for a while, so I watched television.”
“I guess living without love, without experiencing it or being able to give it is pretty strong punishment.”
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening inside me. I cannot even explain it to myself.”
“I drink much less than most people think, and I think much more than most people would believe. I am quite sincere about some of the things which people take very lightly, and almost insultingly unconcerned about some of the things which people take most seriously. In short, I am basically antisocial: certainly not to an alarming degree , but just more so than I appear to be.”
“A child who does not play is not a child, but the man who doesn't play has lost forever the child who lived in him and who he will miss terribly.”