“No day is safe from news of you.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 192 of 309
“I opened the door and blinked out into the bright hall. I had the impression it wasn't night and it wasn't day, but some lurid third interval that had suddenly slipped between them and would never end.”
“You try to be faithful And sometimes you're cruel. You are mine. Then, you leave. Without you, I can't cope. And when you take the lead, I become your footstep. Your absence leaves a void. Without you, I can't cope. You have disturbed my sleep, You have wrecked my image. You have set me apart. Without you, I can't cope.”
“And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river.”
“My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless.”
“Since I was cut from the reedbed I have made this crying sound. Anyone separated from someone he loves understands what I say. Anyone pulled from a Source longs to go back.”
“For without you, I swear, the town Has become like a prison to me. Distraction and the mountain And the desert, all I desire.”
“This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart.”
“The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache.”
“And patience flees my heart, And reason flees my mind. Oh, how drunk can I get to be, Without your love's security?”
“The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, arrive through the mailslot with loving regularity, white and blank, expansive as carbon monoxide. No day is safe from news of you, walking about in Africa maybe, but thinking of me.”
“Strange, when one thinks of all the other boys, infinite experimental kisses, test tube infatuations, crushes, pseudo-loves. All through this physical separation, through the testing and the trying of the others, there has been this peculiar rapport, comradeship, of us two so alike, so similar, but for science-boy and humanities-girl - the introspection, self examination, biannual deep summarizing conversations, and then the platonic parting.”
“I have let things slip, a thirty-year~old cargo boat Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.”
“No, I won't try to escape myself by losing myself in artificial chatter 'Did you have a nice vacation?' 'Oh, yes, and you?' I'll stay here and try to pin that loneliness down.”
“I'm the youngest of six children; both of my sisters are housewives and they each have four kids.”
“I belong to a group of men who fly alone. There is only one seat in the cockpit of a fighter airplane. There is no space alotted for another pilot to tune the radios in the weather or make the calls to air traffic control centers or to help with the emergency procedures or to call off the airspeed down final approach. There is no one else to break the solitude of a long cross-country flight. There is no one else to make decisions.”
“Solitude lies at the lowest depth of the human condition. Man is the only being who feels himself to be alone and the only one who is searching for the Other.”
“Nobody knows the world of emotion I'm inhabiting right now.”
“I'm perpetually lonely.”
“Darkness, real darkness, was more than just a lack of light.”