“I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 165 of 309
“You ask of my companions. Hills, sir, and the sundown, and a dog as large as myself.”
“The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend, - Or the most agonizing Spy - An Enemy - could send -”
“There is no Silence in the Earth - so silent As that endured Which uttered, would discourage Nature And haunt the World.”
“The Loneliness One dare not sound -- And would as soon surmise AS in its Grave go plumbing To ascertain the size -- The Loneliness whose worst alarm Is lest itself should see -- And perish from before itself For just a scrutiny -- The Horror not to be surveyed -- But skirted in the Dark -- With Consciousness suspended -- And Being under Lock -- I fear me this -- is Loneliness -- The Maker of the soul Its Caverns and its Corridors Illuminate -- or seal”
“Perhaps even more than constituted authority, it is social uniformity and sameness that harass the individual most. His very "uniqueness," "separateness" and "differentiation" make him an alien, not only in his native place, but even in his own home. Often more so than the foreign born who generally falls in with the established.”
“A lot of times I feel like people come up to me because they think I'm like my character in Easy A, or because they've seen me in interviews, but really what they're a fan of is a movie or a character.”
“When you don't even get to try, you're like in a vacuum.”
“People thought I was this doll that came to life, so I would have different people just treating me very strangely as far as I was concerned. They wanted to see if I was real.”
“Everyone I talked to was a recording-the bank, the elevator, your office, the school, a wrong number. You used to be able to call a wrong number and get a person.”
“This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.”
“Envy makes people lonely, and brings them great suffering. It is horrible stuff to have in our flesh, and it is a sin we need to take deadly seriously.”
“I hardly ever go to parties. If I really have to, I'll go, but I'm not the most open person, which is sometimes not the best quality.”
“I'm the wrong kind of person to be really big and famous.”
“Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.”
“Nobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.”
“Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?”
“There is someone I must say goodbye to. Oh, not you - we are sure to see each other again - but the Lily Bart you knew. I have kept her with me all this time, but now we are going to part, and I have brought her back to you - I am going to leave her here. When I go out presently she will not go with me. I shall like to think that she has stayed with you.”
“I once felt bad because I had no shoes, and then I met a man who had no feet. He was wearing an ankle bracelet that kept falling off.”
“Tongues wrangled dark at a man. He buttoned his overcoat and stood alone. In a snowstorm, red hollyberries, thoughts, he stood alone.”