“I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 178 of 309
“I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal system is prone to overreaction.”
“Friendship is in the end no more than: " . . . a lie which seeks to make us believe that we are not irremediably alone."”
“We construct our lives for one person, and when at length it is ready to receive her that person does not come; presently she is dead to us, and we live on, prisoners within the walls which were intended only for her.”
“We can sometimes find a person again, but we cannot abolish time. And so on until the unforeseen day, gloomy as a winter night, when one no longer seeks that girl, or any other, when to find her would actually scare one. For one no longer feels that one has attractions enough to please, or strength enough to love. Not, of course, that one is in the strict sense of the word impotent. And as for loving, one would love more than ever. But one feels that it is too big an undertaking for the little strength one has left.”
“I do remember being teased by my cousins on my mom's side for not being black enough. And then I'd spend the summer with my dad and be sent to all white summer camps where I was 'that black girl.'”
“My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's.”
“I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.”
“The worst solitude is to have no real friendships.”
“Being poor is not like being a victim. Being poor means that you don't have one resource.”
“One reads alone, even in another's presence.”
“I don't feel lonely. No no no. I feel like I'm jumping in a well that has no bottom, and at some point I know I'll hit bottom. I never put a time limit on it. I'm oblivious to anything except that which I'm doing.”
“I try not to think about my life. I have no life. I need therapy.”
“I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.”
“I'll never see them again. I know that. And they know that. And knowing this, we say farewell.”
“Maybe the star doesnt even exist any more.Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.”
“Sometimes I feel like a caretaker of a museum -- a huge, empty museum where no one ever comes, and I'm watching over it for no one but myself.”
“I’ve built a wall around me, never letting anybody inside and trying not to venture outside myself”
“Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go some place where you don't know a soul?”
“Something inside me had dropped away, and nothing came in to fill the cavern.”