“I remember my grandfather telling me how each of us must live with a full measure of loneliness that is inescapable, and we must not destroy ourselves with our passion to escape the aloneness.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 14 of 309
“I used to work at this store called Music Plus in San Clemente, California, when I was growing up, and then they became Blockbuster Music, and, like, you had to get a haircut to work there, and at the time I had some pretty long hair. So after that policy was imposed, I knew that was going to be my last summer working there.”
“I kind of imagine myself at eighty, a cat lady.”
“I grew up as a fairly poor kid in, you know, Toronto, Canada. I don't think I owned any new clothes until I was, like, 15 or something. They were all second-hand and forged from paper.”
“Porches are America's lost rooms.”
“I was very emotional. I cried when I got into the locker room. I didn’t want to show that stuff on the sideline.”
“It's great when two strangers become best friends but not when best friends become two strangers.”
“I can feel myself dying inside.”
“I pretend I'm not hurt, I walk about the world like I'm having fun.”
“I drink out of desperation. Life is too dreary to endure. The misery, loneliness, crampedness - they're heartbreaking.[...] What feelings do you suppose a man has when he realizes that he will never know happiness or glory as long as he lives? Hard work. All that amounts to is food for the wild beasts of hunger.”
“I wonder how many people I've looked at all my life and never seen.”
“Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.”
“My experiences at Princeton have made me far more aware of my 'blackness' than ever before. I have found that at Princeton, no matter how liberal and open-minded some of my white professors and classmates try to be toward me, I sometimes feel like a visitor on campus; as if I really don't belong.”
“I cry very easily. It can be a movie, a phone conversation, a sunset - tears are words waiting to be written.”
“I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.”
“I do desire we may be better strangers.”
“What greater wound is there than a false friend?”
“There is a loneliness more precious than life. There is a freedom more precious than the world. Infinitely more precious than life and the world is that moment when one is alone with God.”
“You moan, "She left me." "He left me," Twenty more will come.”
“The reason I want to be alone, is I'm tired of all the things that went wrong that would've went right if I had did 'em on my own”