“I measure every grief I meet with narrow, probing eyes - I wonder if it weighs like mine - or has an easier size.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 114 of 309
“The entire world is a collection of memoranda that she did exist, and that I have lost her.”
“I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
“I am nobody! Who are you? Are you a nobody, too?”
“My family has never been there for me. They expect things because we're blood.”
“We just kept moving back and forth because my mother never had a job. We kept getting kicked out of every house we were in. I believe six months was the longest we ever lived in a house.”
“In taking out an insurance policy one pays for it in dollars and cents, always at liberty to discontinue payments. If, however, womans premium is a husband, she pays for it with her name, her privacy, her self-respect, her very life, until death doth part.”
“People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish.”
“The kind of relatedness to the world may be noble or trivial, but even being related to the basest kind of pattern is immensely preferable to being alone.”
“My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world.”
“I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.”
“I've always felt a bit weird, very shy.”
“They belonged to that vast group of human automata who go through life without neglecting to perform a single one of the gestures executed by the surrounding puppets.”
“Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.”
“At the age of 11 I was about 6 ft. tall and my voice had completely broken. That caused problems. I was this gangly, spotty, very unattractive kid. I wasn't cool and I wasn't a nerd. I didn't even want to fit in with anyone.”
“In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”
“I always try to act like I'm some old school artist from the 1960s.”
“All men are lonely. But sometimes it seems to me that we Americans are the loneliest of all. Our hunger for foreign places and new ways has been with us almost like a national disease. Our literature is stamped with a quality of longing and unrest, and our writers have been great wanderers.”
“Quit the world, and the world forgets you.”
“False friends leave you in times of trouble.”