“Twenty years is, after all, a long time. We are not the same people we were. Old friends, lovers, even family members: they are strangers who happen to wear a familiar face. We have no right to claim to know anyone after such a distance.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 126 of 309
“I know I have within myself... a side of solitude. I think people who know me can see, but people who just meet me can't because I'm generally very fun and gregarious. I love to spend a lot of time on my own. I can seriously go into my own head and often love to let myself travel where I don't know where I'm going. I always felt that that was his kind of form of escape, in a way.”
“I have hardly anything in common with myself and should stand very quietly in a corner, content that I can breathe.”
“I can't feel a thing; All mournful petal storms are dancing inside the very private spring of my head.”
“Many times I feel different like a different person.”
“Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.”
“Since there's no more you and me. It's time I let you go so I Can Be Free.”
“I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.”
“The heart is forever inexperienced.”
“If misery loves company, misery has company enough.”
“If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.”
“My world of human beings had perished. I was utterly alone in the world and for friends I had the streets, and the streets spoke to me in that sad, bitter language compounded of human misery, yearning, regret, failure, wasted effort”
“The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.”
“When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.”
“Violet! sweet violet! Thine eyes are full of tears; Are they wet Even yet With the thought of other years?”
“Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.”
“They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer.”
“One man runs to his neighbor because he is looking for himself, and another because he wants to loose himself. Your bad love of yourselves makes solitude a prison for you.”
“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
“I wished I could be alone in my room, with my books, away from these people.”