“I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now--only that place where the books are kept.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 159 of 309
“Books ain't no good. A guy needs somebody - to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody.”
“Men all do about the same thing when they wake up.”
“If I was alone I could live so easy. I could go get a job an' work, an' no trouble.”
“Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world”
“When I was little, I didn't like being left on my own in the dark.”
“My children's favorite, and it's funny because they've seen it but they have a difficult time watching it because it's their dad and they make that connection, but Edward Scissorhands is by far my kids' favorite. They just connect with the character, and they see their dad feeling that isolation, that loneliness. He's a tragic character, so I think it's hard for them. They bawl.”
“I think Alice [Cooper] probably, on some level, recognized that good old self-destructive streak that does happen in some people's lives. So, though I wasn't there with Alice and the Vampires, but I'd give anything in the world to have been, I had my own version, I suppose, a little later.”
“I don’t think of myself as being a celebrity, it’s too mortifying. I have a hard time watching myself on screen and it’s getting worse. I can’t tell whether my work is good or not.”
“I always felt like I had the word "illegal" tattooed on my forehead.”
“A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.”
“I quit Paris unwillingly, because I must part from my friends; and I quit the country unwillingly, because I must part from myself.”
“I grew up in the South Bronx, raised by my grandmother, who scrapped and scraped to make sure I had a roof over my head and food in my stomach. I was painfully aware of what it was like to live with limited resources and a certain level of uncertainty.”
“Writing is a solitary occupation, and one of its hazards is loneliness. But an advantage of loneliness is privacy, autonomy and freedom.”
“Your punishment if you're a woman. Not loved enough.”
“As a farm girl, even when I was quite young, I had my 'farm chores' - but I had time also to be alone, to explore the fields, woods and creek side. And to read.”
“Most people think that a widow is inhabiting some elegiac world of - it's like Mozart's 'Requiem Mass.' You know, it's very beautiful and elevated thoughts and some measure of dignity. I didn't have that experience at all. I had one pratfall after another.”
“You people who have survived childhood don't remeber any longer what it was like. You think children are whole, uncomplicated creatures, and if you split them in two with a handy axe there would be all one substance inside, hard candy. But it isn't hard candy so much as a hopeless seething lava of all kinds of things, a turmoil, a mess. And once the child starts thinking about this mess he begins to disintegrate as a child and turns into something else--an adult, an animal.”
“Lorna was quite young when her mother died, and I think she's blocked out some of the memories. I talked to her a little bit about that, but I wasn't prepared to go around and poke and hurt her.”
“Sometimes you kind of lose yourself in someone else's personality.”