“Huge and mighty forms that do not live like living men, moved slowly through the mind by day and were trouble to my dreams.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 142 of 309
“Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.”
“The silence that is in the starry sky, / The sleep that is among the lonely hills.”
“Everyone threw the blame on me ... they nearly always do. I suppose ... they think I shall be able to bear it best.”
“I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own.”
“There are blessed intervals when I forget by one means or another that I am President of the United States.”
“What's wrong with men?" Tenar inquired cautiously. As cautiously, lowering her voice, Moss replied, "I don't know, my dearie. I've thought on it. Often I've thought on it. The best I can say it is like this. A man's in his skin, see, like a nut in its shell." She held up her long, bent, wet fingers as if holding a walnut. "It's hard and strong, that shell, and it's all full of him. Full of grand man-meat, man-self. And that's all. That's all there is. It's all him and nothing else, inside.”
“Each way means loneliness -- and communion.”
“To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.”
“I held my heart back from positively accepting anything, since I was afraid of another fall, and in this condition of suspense I was being all the more killed.”
“The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do with me. Were it not so I would build a small cabin for myself among their crowd of nests and pass my days counting the sea waves.”
“The child ever dwells in the mystery of ageless time,unobscured by the dust of history.”
“Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness.”
“True artists are prophets. I don't want to be that prophetic in that sense because it's so lonely.”
“I am one of those people that believes that if I am going through something, somebody else out there among those billions of people living on this Earth is going through something similar, if not the same thing”
“I feel like I've always been a weirdo. I always grew up with the sense of being a total outsider. I grew up so alienated from other people, and it never went away. When I'm around "normal" people I behave around them as if they are crazy, which makes me seem crazy.”
“i'm okay.. is that what you really want me to say?”
“I hate the way, once you start to know someone, care about them, their behavior can distress you, even when it's unreasonable and not your fault, even if you were really trying to be careful, tactful.”
“I can't spend my whole day talking to people.”
“Missing you is worse than Pittsburgh.”