“alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 102 of 309
“I don't trust him. We're friends.”
“You've got to know someone pretty well to hate them.”
“I wouldn't even think of playing music if I was born in these times. I wouldn't even listen to the radio.”
“A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.”
“Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.”
“Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.”
“It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.”
“Unlike most actors, I did not have a horrible childhood. Most actors have had miserable childhoods and they go into acting to hide from their real life. I had no problem playing in the woods all day. People just sort of left me alone. I think I'm gonna go back to those woods.”
“I would say, 'I'm alone, but I'm not lonely.' But I was just kidding myself.”
“Social media has given us this idea that we should all have a posse of friends when in reality, if we have one or two really good friends, we are lucky.”
“I am too far away from what I love and my distance is without remedy.”
“Even when one sits in the prisoner's dock, it is interesting to hear talk about oneself.”
“I have no friends, I only have accomplices now. On the other hand, my accomplices are more numerous than my friends: they are the human race.”
“Everyone knows a lot about me without actually knowing me at all.”
“I only regret that everybody wants to deprive me of the journal, which is the only steadfast friend I have, the only one which makes my life bearable, because my happiness with human beings is so precarious, my confiding moods rare, and the least sign of non-interest is enough to silence me. In the journal I am at ease.”
“We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.”
“To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.”
“Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.”
“The interviewer should just tell me the words he wants me to say and I’ll repeat them after him. I think that would be so great because I’m so empty I just can’t think of anything to say.”