“In 1970 I felt so lonely that I could not give; now I feel so joyful that giving seems easy. I hope that the day will come when the memory of my present joy will give me the strength to keep giving even when loneliness gnaws at my heart.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 154 of 309
“In community, where you have all the affection you could ever dream of, you feel that there is a place where even community cannot reach. That's a very important experience. In that loneliness, which is like a dark night of the soul, you learn that God is greater than community.”
“To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs.”
“The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity.”
“If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man.”
“I want to weep, she thought. I want to be comforted. I'm so tired of being strong. I want to be foolish and frightened for once. Just for a small while, that's all....a day.....an hour.”
“If I look back I am lost.”
“All dwarfs are bastards in their father's eyes”
“There is an empty place within me where my heart once was.”
“The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.”
“People who feel themselves to be exiles in this world are mightily inclined to believe themselves citizens of another.”
“When I tried to draw near, you dissolved into air before my lips could touch you...”
“All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.”
“There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.”
“...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.”
“the modern woman asks herself: Is there something wrong with me if my children don't fill up my life?”
“There is nothing that you could say to me now that I could ever believe.”
“Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up.”
“What do I have in common with Jews? I don't even have anything in common with myself.”
“I am too tired, I must try to rest and sleep, otherwise I am lost in every respect. What an effort to keep alive! Erecting a monument does not require an expenditure of so much strength.”