“The woman who died night after night and her dying was a long goodbye, a train that never left.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 123 of 309
“Solitude is the profoundest fact”
“As a viewer, I'm personally less interested in the damaged, white, middle-class male figuring out his dreams and more interested in maybe an underdog figuring out how they're going to survive in a world that doesn't necessarily invite them in.”
“You are only three or four hours from taking your glasses off for keeps.”
“There’s something about sitting alone in the dark that reminds you how big the world really is, and how far apart we all are. The stars look like they’re so close, you could reach out and touch them. But you can’t. Sometimes things look a lot closer than they are.”
“Don't tell people what you are thinking, or you will miss them terribly when you are away.”
“He had no memory of ever being hugged like this, as though by a mother. The full weight of everything he had seen that night seemed to fall in upon him as Mrs. Weasley held him to her. His mother's face, his father's voice, the sight of Cedric, dead on the ground all started spinning in his head until he could hardly bear it, until he was screwing up his face against the howl of misery fighting to get out of him.”
“Go away... I'm alright.”
“He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.”
“In the end all books are written for your friends.”
“The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.”
“At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.”
“All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream”
“I was just learning to be by myself. He seemed to really see me, see through the bullshit...He was so handsome, and he could dance. I thought, 'He won't be interested in me; I'm not a contender. He was so cool, so funny - I was such a fan of his and had always fancied his speed and his intelligence. I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough or his type.'”
“It is true that when you're in the White House alone, it is a lonely place. Big and lonely.”
“I grew up in a high school where it was very conservative, and I felt like people disapproved of me, and I felt like an outsider.”
“I hear the birds on the summer breeze, I drive fast I am alone in the night Been trying hard not to get into trouble, but I I've got a war in my mind So, I just ride”
“Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry-- I'll be dogged, sweet baby, If you gonna see me die.”
“Now Livie's gone west, out of the dust, on her way to California, where the wind takes a rest sometimes. And I'm wondering what kind of friend I am, wanting my feet on that road to another place,instead of Livie's.”
“My father and I, we can't soothe each other. I'm too young, he's too old, and we don't know how to talk anymore if we ever did”