“Before the eighth grade, I probably went to seven or eight different schools.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 158 of 309
“I don't have the first clue who he is talking about, because all I worry about is Jerome.”
“That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like, 'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling down.'”
“It's hard for anybody who's been with me not to feel starved for affection when I'm making love to my ideas. Maybe it's not meant for me to settle down and be married.”
“I feel lucky that I even have the luxury to write about feeling lonely or feeling confused. When you think about climate change that means that we won't have an Earth to be lonely on.”
“Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence & manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn w/ Tests , deaths, feats, rites stories, songs, & judgements.”
“When I hear anything derogatory towards the Raiders, I am definitely hurt.”
“I'm a million miles away, and at the same time I'm right here in your picture frame.”
“Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.”
“Whoever gives himself up to solitude, Ah! he is soon alone.”
“My peace is gone, my heart is heavy. [Ger., Meine Ruh ist hin, Mein Herz ist schwer.]”
“Violet said nothing, though big pearly tears, like a child's, trembled at her lashes. She suddenly missed John very much. Into him she could pour all the inarticulate perceptions, all the knowings and unknowings she felt, which, though he couldn't understand them really, he would receive reverently, and out of him would come then the advice, the warnings, the clever decisions she could never have made.”
“I long to talk with some old lover's ghost, Who died before the god of love was born.”
“What's the use of being Irish if the world doesn't break your heart?”
“Do you ever wonder whether people would like you more or less if they could see inside you? But I always wonder about that. If people could see me the way I see myself—if they could live in my memories—would anyone, anyone, love me?”
“You like someone who can't like you back because unrequited love can be survived in a way that once-requited love cannot.”
“I'm starting to realize that people lack good mirrors. It's so hard for anyone to show us how we look, & so hard for us to show anyone how we feel.”
“I mean, it’s stupid to miss someone you didn’t even get along with. But I don’t know, it was nice, you know, having someone you could always fight with.”
“The best loved man or maid in the town would perish with anguish Could they hear all that their friends say in the course of a day.”
“I think I'm just a summer fling that people will soon forget.”