“I suffered, I really suffered, with all three of my husbands. And I tried damn hard with all three, starting each marriage certain that it was going to last until the end of my life. Yet none of them lasted more than a year or two.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 140 of 309
“Have you ever felt the longing for someone you could admire? For something, not to look down at, but up to?”
“If I have to be alone I want to be by myself.”
“I don't say he's a great man. Willie Loman never made a lot of money. His name was never in the paper. He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid. He's not to be allowed to fall in his grave like an old dog. Attention, attention must finally be paid to such a person.”
“Poor brain! How helplessly it dissolves when willing eyes meet and the nose warms to those old jungle scents.”
“Maleficent has suffered abuse in the past, and there's a reason why she is now as furious as she is. And I think that children who have been outcast and abused in any way will relate to her. There's a beautiful side to her; she's not just a dark person. She has all these facets. And that is interesting.”
“You can't truly have an open heart until it's been broken.”
“When people become elders - when they're older; they can be old without being an elder, really. They [can] just be old and not very useful.”
“But I don't know how to fight. All I know how to do is stay alive.”
“I feel I am a child that's lost its mother. I feel like a calf whose mother has gone off to slaughter.”
“We rarely confide in those who are better than we are.”
“There are some men formed with feelings so blunt that they can hardly be said to be awake during the whole course of their lives.”
“I've got many close friends, but there's an awful lot about friendship that is not demonstrative in my case.”
“Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the poet to become tender and imaginitive in the loneliness of confinement. He banquets upon the honey of his own thoughts, and, like the captive bird, pours forth his soul in melody.”
“All these, however, were mere terrors of the night, phantoms of the mind that walk in darkness; and though he had seen many spectres in his time, and been more than once beset by Satan in divers shapes, in his lonely pre-ambulations, yet daylight put an end to all these evils; and he would have passed a pleasent life of it, in despite of the devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man than ghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was - a woman.”
“Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.”
“The two friends stood for a few moments on the windy street corner, not speaking a word, as two travelers, who have lost their way, sometimes stand and admit their perplexity in silence. (O Pioneers!)”
“From the ship all things were taken out, so that the clothes which I took with me on my back I only had.”
“I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?”
“Maybe the bride-bed brings despair, For each an imagined image brings And finds a real image there...”