“You can just sit in here, impervious and invisible. So invisible you might even forget yourself.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 187 of 309
“Maybe we spend most of our decades being someone else, avoiding ourselves, maybe a man is only himself, his true self, for a few days in his entire life.”
“I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach.”
“I got up and walked back to my roominghouse. The moonlight was bright. My footsteps echoed in the empty street and it sounded as if somebody was following me, I looked around. I was mistaken. I was quite alone.”
“morning night and noon the traffic moves through and the murder and treachery of friends and lovers and all the people move through you. pain is the joy of knowing the unkindest truth that arrives without warning. life is being alone death is being alone. even the fools weep morning night and noon.”
“she knew what she wanted and it wasn't / me. / I know more women like that than any / other kind.”
“I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect.”
“Among the Tibetans, one wife has many husbands, because men are too poor to support a whole wife.”
“I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.”
“I'm a good person and I don't think I'll be left on my own. I don't know when I'll meet a man - I think I'm rushing it. But I am tired of working and not having someone.”
“We're born alone. We do need each other. It's lonely to really effectively live your life, and anyone you can get help from or give help to; that's part of your obligation.”
“So now I'm going back again I got to get her somehow All the people we used to know They're an illusion to me now Some are mathematicians Some are carpenter's wives Don't know how it all got started I don't what they're doing with their lives But me I'm still on the road Heading for another joint We always did feel the same We just saw it from a different point of view Tangled up in Blue.”
“Down the street the dogs are barking And the day is getting dark. As the night comes in a-falling, The dogs´ll lose their bark And the silent night will shatter From the sounds inside my mind, For I´m one to many mornings And a thousand miles behind. From the crossroads of my doorstep, My eyes they start to fade, As I turn my head back to the room Where my love and I have laid.”
“She never stumbles, she's got no place to fall. She's nobody's child, the law can't touch her at all.”
“I can't see my reflection in the waters, I can't speak the sounds that show no pain. I can't hear the echo of my footsteps, or can't remember the sound of my own name.”
“I am alone; all drowns in the Pharisees' hypocrisy. To live your life is not as simple as to cross a field.”
“My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.”
“I was a different kind of kid, oversensitive and all that.”
“I would rather feel the hurt inside, yes I would darling, than know the emptiness that your heart must hide.”
“I had an Indian Scout motorcycle during high school, but I never could take it to school. My dad would sneak out at night and pull the spark-plug wires.”