“One night love affair, pretending we don't care, and now we're left with nothing.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 188 of 309
“Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being.”
“Only times and places, only names and ghosts.”
“I'm the kind of person who does not want to be anywhere that I'm not wanted.”
“I am alone. There is no God where I am.”
“I hardly ever talk- words seem such a waste, and they are none of them true. No one has yet invented a language from my point of view.”
“The few love affairs which had come my way had been rather silly and sordid. They had not revealed the possibilities of love; in fact I had thought it a somewhat overrated pleasure, a brief and brutal blindness with boredom and disgust hard on its heels.”
“In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.”
“Being alone is almost always preferable to being with the wrong person.”
“I must be mad, or very tired, When the curve of a blue bay beyond a railroad track Is shrill and sweet to me like the sudden springing of a tune, And the sight of a white church above thin trees in a city square Amazes my eyes as though it were the Parthenon.”
“Moon! Moon! I am prone before you. Pity me,and drench me in loneliness.”
“He, who had done more than any human being to draw her out of the caves of her secret, folded life, now threw her down into deeper recesses of fear and doubt. The fall was greater than she had ever known, because she had ventured so far into emotion and had abandoned herself to it.”
“Warmth, perfume, rugs, soft lights, books. They do not appease me. I am aware of time passing, of all the world contains that I have not seen, of all the interesting people I have not met.”
“I cannot concentrate all my friendship on any single one of my friends because no one is complete enough in himself.”
“People think I am unemotional because my voice is flat and a bit boring. It is unfortunate but it is just the way it is. I've tried to change it but it doesn't seem to make a difference. The truth is, I have lots of emotions inside. I cried after the semi-final at Wimbledon [2012] because I was proud to reach the final and I knew how much it meant to the country. I cried after the [losing] final [to Federer], too, for different reasons. I felt I had let people down. I think people warmed to that. They could see how much it hurt.”
“Maybe his heart is searching for and not finding the place it used to live. I understand that because mine is searching and not finding too.”
“My heart is too thoroughly dried to be broken in a hurry, and I mean to live as long as I can.”
“What business had I to think so much of one that never thought of me?”
“Where I live, everything is very small.”
“Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.”