“Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 111 of 309
“Loneliness is dangerous ... because if aloneness does not lead to God, it leads to the devil. It leads to the self.”
“Where can one find a profounder desolation than in the poor child who has lost its mother?”
“There was no singles problem until singles got so single-minded that they stopped wasting time with anyone ineligible. Before that, it was understood that one of society's main tasks was matchmaking. People with lifelong friendships and ties to local nonprofessional organizations did not have to fear that isolation would accompany retirement, old age, or losing a spouse. Overburdened householders could count on the assistance not only of their own extended families, but of the American tradition of neighborliness.”
“It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.”
“No matter under what circumstances you leave it, home does not cease to be home. No matter how you lived there - well or poorly.”
“I'm not sure if I'm depressed. I mean, I'm not exactly sad. But I'm not exactly happy either. I can laugh and joke and smile during the day, But sometimes when I'm alone at night I forget how to feel.”
“I long for home, long for the sight of home.”
“I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.”
“Today again I am hardly myself. It happens over and over.”
“I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.”
“When one's not writing poems - and I'm not at the moment - you wonder how you ever did it. It's like another country you can't reach.”
“When I was very little, we would get letters from China, in Chinese, and they' be censored. We were a very insular little family.”
“I feel like sometimes that I was not meant for this society.”
“...she merely wished to find a way out of the maze. She knew that she had become a burden to him: she took things too seriously, turning everything into a tragedy, and failed to grasp the lightness and amusing insignificance of physical love. How she wished she could learn lightness! She yearned for someone to help her out of her anachronistic shell.”
“La memoria no guarda películas, guarda fotografías.”
“Every now and again it would be considered wholesome for me to be more with people of my own age. Demotion to such company was a sapless exile. Their inanity was insufferable.”
“When Christ said: "I was hungry and you fed me," he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness.”
“He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by.”
“Women are ever the dupes or the victims of their extreme sensitiveness.”