“I want to spend my time with people who don't look to be respected. But such good people won't want to spend their time with me.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 18 of 309
“For the first time I was learning how much easier it was to leave than to stay behind and love.”
“One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.”
“When you start working, everybody is in your studio- the past, your friends, enemies, the art world, and above all, your own ideas- all are there. But as you continue painting, they start leaving, one by one, and you are left completely alone. Then, if you are lucky, even you leave.”
“The dandelion's pallid tube Astonishes the grass, And winter instantly becomes An infinite alas.”
“I always like walking in the rain, so no one can see me crying.”
“I am alone here in my own mind. There is no map and there is no road. It is one of a kind just as yours is.”
“Should I just sit down, right here at carousel seven, and shake until somebody's arms are around me and they're saying, 'It's okay, I'm here, I'm here, come with me to the institute.”
“Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.”
“The more you love, the more you suffer.”
“There came to him an image of man’s whole life upon the earth. It seemed to him that all man’s life was like a tiny spurt of flame that blazed out briefly in an illimitable and terrifying darkness, and that all man’s grandeur, tragic dignity, his heroic glory, came from the brevity and smallness of this flame. He knew his life was little and would be extinguished, and that only darkness was immense and everlasting. And he knew that he would die with defiance on his lips, and that the shout of his denial would ring with the last pulsing of his heart into the maw of all-engulfing night.”
“Sometimes I go for days without speaking to a soul. I think, “I should make that call", but I put it off. Because there’s something pleasurable about not talking. But then I love talking, so it’s not that. But sometimes it can be nice. It’s not like I sit here philosophizing, because I’ve no talent for that. It’s just this thing about silence that’s so wonderful.”
“I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.”
“After two years in Washington, I often long for the realism and sincerity of Hollywood.”
“A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.”
“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.”
“I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been.”
“Me, myself and I. That's all I got in the end.”
“You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.”
“Memory is not what the heart desires.”