“Great men do not content us. It is their solitude, not their force, that makes them conspicuous.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 144 of 309
“We walk alone in the world. Friends, such as we desire, are dreams and fables.”
“Often whole days pass without my speaking to anyone.”
“I feel the need of relations and friendship, of affection, of friendly intercourse.... I cannot miss these things without feeling, as does any other intelligent man, a void and a deep need.”
“Authors and lovers always suffer some infatuation, from which only absence can set them free.”
“The return of my birthday, if I remember it, fills me with thoughts which it seems to be the general care of humanity to escape.”
“Parents and children seldom act in concert: each child endeavors to appropriate the esteem or fondness of the parents, and the parents, with yet less temptation, betray each other to their children.”
“Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help? The notice which you have been pleased to take care of my labors, had it been early, had been kind; but it has been delayed till I am indifferent, and cannot enjoy it; till I am solitary, and cannot impart it; till I am known, and do not want it.”
“It may be laid down as a position which seldom deceives, that when a man cannot bear his own company, there is something wrong.”
“They that have grown old in a single state are generally found to be morose, fretful and captious; tenacious of their own practices and maxims; soon offended by contradiction or negligence; and impatient of any association but with those that will watch their nod, and submit themselves to unlimited authority.”
“I live in the crowd of jollity, not so much to enjoy company as to shun myself.”
“But I pine in Solitude. Solitude is my undoing.”
“For they might be parted for hundreds of years, she and Peter; she never wrote a letter and his were dry sticks; but suddenly it would come over her, If he were with me now what would he say? --some days, some sights bringing him back to her calmly, without the old bitterness; which perhaps was the reward of having cared for people; they came back in the middle of St. James's Park on a fine morning--indeed they did.”
“There was a day when I liked writing letters -- it has gone. Unfortunately the passion for getting them remains.”
“O why do I ever let anyone read what I write! Every time I have to go through a breakfast with a letter of criticism I swear I will write for my own praise or blame in future. It is a misery.”
“For women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places.”
“Alone, condemned, deserted, as those who are about to die are alone, there was a luxury in it, an isolation full of sublimity; a freedom which the attached can never know”
“Venerable are letters, infinitely brave, forlorn, and lost.”
“People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.”
“I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven't heard of anyone who's got better from Alzheimer's.”