“I don't feel a connection with younger people or with Generation X, or any generation, I feel. If I felt a connection with people my age I wouldn't have written six books about feeling depressed, alienated, lonely. If I did I would have many friends and feel connected with them and probably be a happy person who has a real job.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 190 of 309
“I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the sporty good girl.”
“Shattered people are best represented by bits and pieces.”
“When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been in those years, but of what life had then promised to be. The expectation of some indefinable splendor, of the unusual, the exciting, the great is an attribute of youth and the process of aging is the process of that expectations' gradual extinction. One does not have to let it happen. But that fire dies for lack of fuel, under the gray weight of disappointments.”
“Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles Same old tired, lonely place”
“We sometimes observe that spoiled children contract a habit of annoying quite wantonly those who have charge of them, and seem tomeasure their own sense of well-being, not by what they do, but by the degree of reaction they can cause. It is vain to get rid of them by not minding them: if purring and humming is not noticed, they squeal and screech; then if you chide and console them, they find the experiment succeeds, and they begin again. The child will sit in your arms contented if you do nothing. If you take a book and read, he commences hostile operations.”
“Isolation must precede true society.”
“People are just not impressed by me at home.”
“When she read just now to James, 'and there were numbers of soldiers with kettledrums and trumpets,' and his eyes darkened, she thought, why should they grow up, and lose all that?”
“Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy.”
“Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read.”
“I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life.”
“He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air.”
“Each person was himself one alone. One oneness, a unit in a society, but always afraid, always alone. If I should scream, if I should call for help, would anyone hear would it even matter?”
“Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.”
“My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.”
“At moments I dislike having a face, a nose, lips, because he has them.”
“I shall lead you through the loneliness, the solitude you will not understand; but it is my shortcut to your soul.”
“Because of their enmity you will be left alone. They will cast you out and forsake you.”
“Any journey in life, if not done for human reasons of understanding and love, would be a very empty and lonely one.”