“No one can be happy in eternal solitude.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 139 of 309
“Her purse was a weight, ballast; it tethered her to the earth as her mind floated away.”
“She felt as if the mosaic she had been assembling out of life's little shards got dumped to the ground, and there was no way to put it back together.”
“I don't have any romantic views of parenting. Every step of the way it's really hard. It's a dangerous world, physically and psychologically.”
“This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.”
“I see that children fill the existential hollowness many people feel; that when we have children, we know they will need us, and maybe love us, but we don't have a clue how hard it is going to be.”
“I am not at home in myself. I am my own stranger.”
“Everyone has left me except my muse, that good nurse. She stays in my hand, a mild white mouse.”
“I am tearing the feathers out of the pillows, waiting, waiting for Daddy to come home and stuff me so full of our infected child that I turn invisible, but married, at last.”
“Every person lives his real, most interesting life under the cover of secrecy.”
“The afternoon is bright, with spring in the air, a mild March afternoon, with the breath of April stirring, I am alone in the quiet patio looking for some old untried illusion - some shadow on the whiteness of the wall some memory asleep on the stone rim of the fountain, perhaps in the air the light swish of some trailing gown.”
“One has no friend who has many friends.”
“I'm not looking for sympathy at all.”
“I miss friends and family. If it weren't for visits from old friends and other African Americans I meet who come to Cuba, I'd probably be in some kind of time warp.”
“Love does not terrify me. But the going away of it does. I have been made terribly aware of how everything can be wrenched away from you and your life torn apart. If I had known very secure nights all my life, if I had never seen or felt the fear of being tortured or deported or blown up into a million pieces, then I would not fear it.”
“And I always heard people in New York never get to know their neighbors.”
“I cried a river of tears but he was too heavy to float on them. So I dragged him with me these years across an ocean.”
“I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself.”
“It terrified me to consider: What if, as a grown-up, I craved another body beside me as still as this one? What then?”
“I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.”