“I'm a lot of things, but none of them are great.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 167 of 309
“The little babies are missing their families from their past lives. The babies have old souls and the old souls have to shrink to become little babies. The tears loosen their memories so they can slide away. They cry at the life they have lost, and then they cry at everything they'll forget.”
“It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.”
“Nobody near me here, but rats, and they are fine stealthy secret fellows.”
“A multitude of people and yet solitude.”
“As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.”
“I had felt uncomfortable as a woman my whole life.”
“I don't trust anybody in my life except my mother and my dogs.”
“I keep saying that I had everything, but all I had was endless tomorrows.”
“I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.”
“It is moonlight. Alone in the silence I ascend my stairs once more, While waves remote in pale blue starlight Crash on a white sand shore. It is moonlight. The garden is silent. I stand in my room alone. Across my wall, from the far-off moon, A rain of fire is thrown. There are houses hanging above the stars, And stars hung under the sea, And a wind from the long blue vault of time Waves my curtains for me. I wait in the dark once more, swung between space and space: Before the mirror I lift my hands And face my remembered face.”
“It's true that you might be socially isolated because you're reading in the library, at home and so on, but you're intensely alive. In fact you're much more alive than these folk walking the streets of New York in crowds, with no intellectual interrogation and questioning going at all.”
“My landlord lives in the flat at the bottom of the stairs. I rent a studio flat from him, and live at the top of the staircase. There are two more flights of stairs and four more flats, but it’s me he is obsessed with.”
“I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!”
“I went to the bathroom and threw some water on my face, combed my hair. If I could only comb that face, I thought, but I can't.”
“I was an Agnostic. Agnostics didn't have much to argue about.”
“it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him.”
“I kept telling myself that all the women in the world weren´t whores, just mine.”
“The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left.”
“the best often die by their own hand just to get away, and those left behind can never quite understand why anybody would ever want to get away from them”