“Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 171 of 309
“What I miss [about church] is being forced to be in community with people that aren't the same as me.”
“I'm twelve years old. I run into a synagogue. I ask the rabbi the meaning of life. He tells me the meaning of life but he tells it to me in Hebrew. I don't understand Hebrew. Then he wants to charge me $600 for Hebrew lessons.”
“Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.”
“See, the thing is, as a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness.”
“In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away”
“and now you live dispersed on ribbon roads, And no man knows or cares who is his neighbor Unless his neighbor makes too much disturbance, But all dash to and fro in motor cars, Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.”
“A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter.”
“All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere.”
“Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.”
“Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies.”
“I don't have you, and without you, it feels like what I do have doesn't matter.”
“Don't you dare try to apologize." His voice shakes. "This is not something you can bandage with a word or two and some hugging, or something.”
“Life has never died, which is something that I think people ignore.”
“I am too alone in the world and not alone enough to make every moment holy.”
“And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it.”
“I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough”
“A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun.”
“The term trying to forget someone is so awful because you’ll never forget someone if you’re trying to forget them.”
“I didn't have friends. No one talked to me. I used to go to the Wyndcroft School (nationally recognized for academic excellence) in Pottstown, and when I moved to Wyomissing, I didn't know anybody.”