“Being a Negro in America means trying to smile when you want to cry. It means trying to hold on to physical life amid psychological death. It means the pain of watching your children grow up with clouds of inferiority in their mental skies. It means having their legs off, and then being condemned for being a cripple.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 129 of 309
“Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable.”
“I live alone, perhaps for no good reason, for the reason that I am an impossible creature, set apart by a temperament I have never learned to use as it could be used, thrown off by a word, a glance, a rainy day, or one drink too many. My need to be alone is balanced against my fear of what will happen when suddenly I enter the huge empty silence if I cannot find support there. I go up to Heaven and down to Hell in an hour, and keep alive only by imposing upon myself inexorable routines. I write too many letters and too few poems.”
“I had very few friends. We always ate dinner with our parents. We didn't want to go out. American adolescence was a lot wilder than I would have felt comfortable with.”
“Man have to have friends even in hell.”
“I'm lonely and I'm still kind of searching for someone I can have a real connection with.”
“nothing yet. I've been waiting." "for what?" she made no response. she could not tell him that she had been waiting for him.”
“I've been living with myself all of my life, so I know all of me. So when I watch me, all I see is me. It's boring.”
“All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well.”
“I spent more time in a van then in my mom's womb.”
“Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.”
“Dont hurt me,'Caine whispered. He didnt have the will to look up at her. Gaia laughed. "Have you seen Mother? I seem to have lost her.”
“I don't deal well with admiration if it's for something I haven't done. Other than exist.”
“What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.”
“Sometimes we are less unhappy in being deceived by those we love, than in being undeceived by them.”
“There's only one me, and I'm stuck with him.”
“How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection.”
“…often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome.”
“What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?”
“When I was a child and teenager I read whenever I had the opportunity, but since then I've found it hard to read as much as I'd like, children, work, and pets all providing powerful incentives to escape into a book and a practical reason why I rarely do so.”