“The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 146 of 309
“The older I've got the less I find myself going back and re-reading or really reading new fiction or poetry.”
“I was shipwrecked before I got aboard.”
“Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.”
“Like most writers, we like to find what we know and pass it along to anyone who cares. When that's done, as soon as we've said the best we can say, there's nothing else about us that's remotely interesting to anybody else, and we go back behind the walls. We can be intimate in books, we can be intimate in talks, but then we need time to be alone.”
“You will recognize, my boy, the first sign of old age: it is when you go out into the streets of London and realize for the first time how young the policemen look.”
“There were moments when I really just thought, I don't need anything and I don't need anyone. I just want to go away and disappear.”
“I've said things and meant them, but I'm obviously a very confused person who has no idea how they feel about things.”
“I've actually never been taken on a date in my whole life. I have never had a one-night stand. I'm a real relationship person — contrary to public perception.”
“I think if I were a college professor, no one would say I was uncomfortable about being shy because that might be expected. But I think because of people's stereotypes, they think of a football player as someone who is very outgoing and I'm not.”
“Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can't reach that person again or that place.”
“The most basic human desire is to feel like you belong. Fitting in is important.”
“I feel like I'm always having to justify why I haven't kept in touch with anyone from the old days in Stoke-on-Trent, but I'm like that with anybody. I don't let anybody in. I just rely on myself.”
“Graved inside of it, "Italy".”
“Dear, dead women, with such hair, too--what's become of all the gold Used to hang and brush their bosoms?”
“No one longs to live more than someone growing old.”
“Word I was in my life alone, / Word I had no one left but God.”
“My views on birth control are somewhat distorted by the fact that I was seventh of nine children.”
“The work of a Prime Minister is the loneliest job in the world.”
“I saw the spiders marching through the air, Swimming from tree to tree that mildewed day In latter August when the hay Came creaking to the barn.”