“Without friends the world is but a wilderness.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 125 of 309
“Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more.”
“I am never less alone than when alone.”
“I am just beginning to be more comfortable with my identity.”
“I wouldn't even hold my kids sometimes because I didn't want them to spit up on me when I was dressed for an awards show.”
“I was the kind of kid that had some talents or ability, but it never came out in school.”
“I’m free, I think. I shut my eyes and think hard and deep about how free I am, but I can’t really understand what it means. All I know is I’m totally alone. All alone in an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who’s lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don’t know, and I give up thinking about it.”
“As long as I kept my body moving I could forget about the emptiness inside.”
“In a place far away from anyone or anywhere, I drifted off for a moment.”
“There are very few people who are not ashamed of having been in love when they no longer love each other.”
“...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.”
“We can't be intimate because we can't share feelings that we don't have”
“The primary distinction of the artist is that he must actively cultivate that state which most men, necessarily, must avoid: the state of being alone.”
“I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't really feel like a member of the human race, to tell you the truth. I know I am, but I really don't. All the definitions are there, but I don't really feel a part of it. I think I have found a detached point of view, an ideal emotional detachment from the American experience and culture and the human experience and culture and human choices.”
“I'm not in show business because I don't have to go to the meetings, I'm just not a part of it, I don't belong to it. When you "belong" to something. You want to think about that word, "belong." People should think about that: it means they own you. If you belong to something it owns you, and I just don't care for that. I like spinning out here like one of those subatomic particles that they can't quite pin down.”
“No matter how exotic human civilization becomes, no matter the developments of life and society nor the complexity of the machine/human interface, there always come interludes of lonely power when the course of humankind, the very future of humankind, depends upon the relatively simple actions of single individual.”
“Old age is as forgetful as youth, and more incorrigible; it displays the same inattentiveness to conditions; its memory becomes self-repeating and degenerates into an instinctive reaction, like a bird's chirp.”
“It was in the Theatre St. Philippe (they has laid a temporary floor over the parquette seats) in the city we now call New Orleans, in the month of September, and in the year 1803.”
“No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.”
“Show me a sensible person who likes himself or herself! I know myself too well to like what I see. I know but too well that I'm not what I'd like to be.”