“since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 168 of 309
“I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories.”
“But something's missing.”
“From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.”
“I meet people overseas that know five languages - that the only language I'm comfortable in is English.”
“I don't really have a retirement plan.”
“I don't have the kinds of relationships that are built on any kind of false pretense, not to say that I haven't. I've had just as many as anybody else, but I haven't had them in a long time.”
“New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.”
“How does it feel, how does it feel to be without a home, like a complete unknown, like a rolling stone.”
“She takes your voice and leaves you howling at the moon.”
“I was an accident - my mum was only 16 when she had me.”
“I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me.”
“You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.”
“At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary.”
“The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it”
“I think that if I get into the habit of writing a bit about what happens, or rather doesn't happen, I may lose a little of the sense of isolation and desolation which abides with me. My circumstances allowing of nothing but the ejaculation of one-syllabled reflections, a written monologue by that most interesting being, myself, may have its yet to be discovered consolations.”
“I'm an old man now, and a lonesome man in Kansas / but not afraid / to speak my lonesomeness in a car, / because not only my lonesomeness / it's Ours, all over America, / O tender fellows --/ & spoken lonesomeness is Prophecy / in the moon 100 years ago or in / the middle of Kansas now.”
“Self-destructive patterns cause as much suffering as outer catastrophes.”
“She was fully, painfully aware that very rarely did midnight strike in two hearts at once, very rarely did midnight arouse two different equal desires, and that any dislocation in this, any indifference, was an indication of disunity, of the difficulties, the impossibilities of fusion between two human beings.”
“Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.”