“It would be very unjust to say that you deserted me, but that I was deserted, and sometimes terribly so, is true.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 155 of 309
“There is a big difference between tweeting to your friend about something that is happening and having a real personal relationship with people.”
“Very commonly I get queries. Somebody saw something of mine on YouTube and of course if there is a talk on YouTube, there aren't any footnotes - and they want to know why did you say this. Well if they bothered to look up something in print, they would've seen why I said that. If they ask for evidence, I just say well take a look and mention something they can read and that usually ends the conversation.”
“Please make me empty, if I'm empty then I can receive, if I can receive it means it comes from somewhere outside of me, if it comes from outside of me I'm not alone! I cannot bear this loneliness. Above all it is loneliness.”
“Who could have foretold the heart grows old from touching others”
“It's a hard concept for me to wrap my head around to completely sacrifice any sort of love in your life, to never experience that on a personal level.”
“When you are alone you are all your own.”
“Her name sprang to my lips at moments in strange prayers and praises which I myself did not understand. My eyes were often full of tears (I could not tell why) and at times a flood from my heart seemed to pour itself out into my bosom. I thought little of the future. I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration.”
“If one shed tears, they must be shed on one's pillow.”
“There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.”
“Friendship is evanescent in every man's experience, and remembered like heat lightning in past summers.”
“I have a great deal of company in my house; especially in the morning, when nobody calls.”
“In solitude especialy do we begin to appreciate the advantage of living with someone who can think.”
“I am no more lonely than a single mullein or dandelion in a pasture, or a bean leaf, or sorrel, or a horse-fly, or a bumblebee. I am no more lonely than the Mill Brook, or a weathercock, or the north star, or the south wind, or an April shower, or a January thaw, or the first spider in a new house.”
“The only danger in Friendship is that it will end.”
“Birds do not sing in caves, nor do doves cherish their innocence in dovecots.”
“I have found that no exertion of the legs can bring two minds much nearer to one another.”
“I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.”
“I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.”
“Solitude is not measured by the miles of space that intervene between a man and his fellows.”