“Man, by definition, is born a stranger: coming from nowhere, he is thrust into an alien world which existed before him-a world which didn't need him. And which will survive him.”
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Lonely Quotes — page 132 of 309
“A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad.”
“When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't.”
“I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.”
“I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me.”
“I feel so alone sometimes. The night is quiet for me. I'd love to be able to sleep. I'll probably not rest. I have no need for all this. Help me, Lord.”
“When every man has realized that his birth is a defeat, existence, endurable at last, will seem like the day after a surrender, like the relief and the repose of the conquered.”
“The limit of every pain is an even greater pain.”
“One is and remains a slave as long as one is not cured of hoping.”
“Alone, even doing nothing, you do not waste your time. You do, almost always, in company. No encounter with yourself can be altogether sterile: Something necessarily emerges, even if only the hope of some day meeting yourself again.”
“I . . . am small, like the wren, and my hair is bold like the chestnut burr; and my eyes like the sherry in the glass that the guest leaves.”
“There is a pain so utter, it swallows being up; The covers the abyss with a trance So memory can step around, across, upon it.”
“One need not be a Chamber - to be Haunted - One need not be a House - The Brain - has Corridors - surpassing Material Place - Far safer, of a Midnight - meeting External Ghost - Than an Interior - Confronting - That cooler - Host. Far safer, through an Abbey - gallop - The Stones a'chase - Than Moonless - One's A'self encounter - In lonesome place - Ourself - behind ourself - Concealed - Should startle - most.”
“We outgrow love like other things and put it in a drawer, till it an antique fashion shows like costumes grandsires wore.”
“wondered how anyone could ever imagine unquiet slumbers, for the sleepers in that quiet earth.”
“It's difficult on my dating life, because anyone I get photographed with is automatically my boyfriend. So it just makes it look as if I've had, like, 6,000 boyfriends!”
“I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated.”
“Most people are really nice but some stare, like you're some kind of zoo exhibit and not a real person with real feelings.”
“We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.”
“Man absolutely cannot live by himself.”