“I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 196 of 309
“There is a prodigious selfishness in dreams: they live perfectly deaf and invulnerable amid the cries of the real world.”
“You and I possess manifold ideal bonds in the interests we share; but each of us has his poor body and his irremediable, incommunicable dreams.”
“There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally.”
“I was never my own type so I completely missed my beauty all through my youth.”
“Me and my books in the same apartment, like a gherkin in its vinegar.”
“I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all”
“Mothers and daughters have that rivalry thing.”
“I am a retiring, silent, unsociable, and discontent person.”
“April 27. Incapable of living with people, of speaking. Complete immersion in myself, thinking of myself. Apathetic, witless, fearful. I have nothing to say to anyone - never.”
“Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control, It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul. Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned: When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.”
“Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory”
“Most of the time I do feel like I need someone else when I'm alone. But I can still get by with just my own company and that makes me a stronger person.”
“The painter must be solitary. For if you are alone you are completely yourself, but if you are accompanied by a single companion, you are only half yourself.”
“Alone, what did Bloom feel? The cold of interstellar space, thousands of degrees below freezing point or the absolute zero of Fahrenheit, Centigrade or Réaumur: the incipient intimations of proximate dawn.”
“As for men, they will hardly fail one anywhere. I had more visitors while I lived in the woods than at any other period of my life; I mean that I had some.”
“I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray?”
“My family and our neighbors and friends thought of Africa and its Africans as extensions of the stereotyped characters that we saw in movies and on television in films such as 'Tarzan' and in programs such as 'Ramar of the Jungle' and 'Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.'”
“We are but older children, dear, Who fret to find our bedtime near.”
“Outward success alienates a man from himself.”