“I don't know what life is like, I don't know how regular people live. I just can never understand it. My first job was the NBA.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 121 of 309
“I thought I had friends but in the end n*iggaz dies lonely.”
“There in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning.”
“It's a dismally lonely business, writing.”
“I stand between two worlds. I am at home in neither, and I suffer in consequence. You artists call me a bourgeois, and the bourgeois try to arrest me...I don't know which makes me feel worse.”
“Even now, after whatever gains feminism has made in involving fathers in the rearing of their children, I still think virtually all of us spend the most formative years of our lives very much in the presence of women”
“There's people been friendly But they'd never be your friends Sometimes this has bent me to the ground”
“Each day when you see us black folk upon the dusty land of your farm or upon the hard pavement of your city streets, you usually take it for granted and think you know us, but our history is far stranger than you suspect, and we are not what we seem.”
“I hated it when people tried to force me out when I wasn't ready. It was very painful, and it actually pushed me away from doing so.”
“The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.”
“Open my heart, and you will see Graved inside of it ‘Italy.'”
“I've always felt like such an outsider in this industry. Because I'm so insane I guess.”
“You had many jazz musicians who lived in the United States, who had a hard time being accepted over here and had to play in sort of these inferior type dives.”
“What a misfortune to be a woman! And yet, the worst misfortune is not to understand what a misfortune it is.”
“What is a poet? An unhappy man who hides deep anguish in his heart, but whose lips are so formed that when the sigh and cry pass through them, it sounds like lovely music.... And people flock around the poet and say: 'Sing again soon' - that is, 'May new sufferings torment your soul but your lips be fashioned as before, for the cry would only frighten us, but the music, that is blissful.”
“Families break up when they get hints you don't intend and miss hints that you do.”
“One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.”
“My problem is I don't see and hear that well, so when I go to the movies, I can make out what's going on, but I can't hear what they're saying. And after the movie, I have to ask whoever I'm with "now, what was that all about?"”
“She’s not for you, nor you for her; at least, not in the way you both want.”
“Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.”