“A self-respecting man is a man without a country. A fatherland is birdlime.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 185 of 309
“At this very moment, I am suffering—as we say in French, j’ai mal. This event, crucial for me, is nonexistent, even inconceivable for anyone else, for everyone else. Except for God, if that word can have a meaning.”
“The history of ideas is the history of the grudges of solitary men.”
“Tears do not burn except in solitude.”
“The task of the solitary man is to be even more solitary.”
“Each that we lose takes a part of us; A crescent still abides, Which like the moon, some turbid night, Is summoned by the tides.”
“A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
“Since age twelve, I've felt like I'm someone else,'cause I hung my original self from the top bunk with a belt.”
“I understand what it's like to come with your family, and to uproot yourself and come to another culture. You need a lot of support. People say, 'She's got her daughter; she's got her husband.' Yeah, but she hasn't got anyone else.”
“I always wanted to have a young female artist that would tell me the truth about life and not only talk about the good things or the things that were exciting or interesting but also talk about the things that people in general are skeptical to talk about- the bad things that do happen. A good 50% of our lives is things that are happening that we're not necessarily super thrilled about and I feel like that's missing from pop music a lot of the time so my main goal is to be truthful about everything and not just specific things.”
“When I was younger I would always listen to female artists that are my age now and I felt like I couldn't always connect with them because all these people would constantly sing these party songs and I couldn't always relate to them. When I was younger it felt very alienating and I try my best to be the person that I would've needed, for other people.”
“Feminism has never emerged from the women who are most victimized by sexist oppression; women who are daily beaten down, mentally, physically, and spiritually - women who are powerless to change their condition in life. They are a silent majority.”
“Well I've been writing books. So that, by its nature, is kind of a solitary occupation. And from time to time I have research help, but mostly I've done those completely on my own.”
“Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood.”
“She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.”
“The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.”
“I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?”
“Of course, we found out later Syd Barrett had mental problems. But there was something so otherworldly about him. He was hovering, like, six inches above the ground.”
“...loneliness is not a function of solitude.”
“We all suffer alone in the real world; true empathy's impossible.”