“Men had suddenly become a scarce commodity, if not quite as sought after as rice.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 128 of 309
“To be no part of any body, is to be nothing.”
“We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow's nest of that ship.”
“My work is known by too few people for me to be remembered as a writer - that is, beyond those dedicated souls (bless them) who have followed the oeuvre through its various stages. To be realistic, when they and the last of my friends have died, I doubt I shall be remembered at all.”
“They's times when how you feel got to be kep' to yourself.”
“A writer out of loneliness is trying to communicate like a distant star sending signals. He isn't telling or teaching or ordering. Rather he seeks to establish a relationship of meaning, of feeling, of observing. We are lonesome animals. We spend all life trying to be less lonesome.”
“I have owed you this letter for a very long time-but my fingers have avoided the pencil as though it were an old and poisoned tool.”
“My father and he had cemented one of those English friendships which begin by avoiding intimacies and eventually eliminate speech altogether.”
“A lot of widows feel that they have betrayed their spouse by continuing to live. It's deranged thinking. I know that, but that doesn't stop you feeling it.”
“When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed by the TV, I felt empty and hungry. My heart hurt... I often felt hollow or as if I were some kind of wispy ghost, barely existing.”
“There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire.”
“Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.”
“When I behold, upon the night's starr'd face, Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance, And think that I may never live to trace Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance.”
“You either have a great social life and shitty taste in music, or a fantastic taste in music with barely any social life.”
“Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”
“Although I have felt compelled to write things down since I was five years old, I doubt that my daughter ever will, for she is a singularly blessed and accepting child, delighted with life exactly as life presents itself to her, unafraid to go to sleep and unafraid to wake up. Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.”
“I suddenly saw how sad and artificial my life had been during this period, for the loves, friends, habits and pleasures of these years were discarded like badly fitting clothes. I parted from them without pain and all that remained was to wonder that I could have endured them so long.”
“What he had not learned, however, was this: to find contentment in himself and his own life”
“When you're together with someone for some time, you will automatically depend on them as if they were a crutch. And then it ends.”
“Oh, my tattered rags are caught on your coffee table.”