“Hate engenders loneliness and despair”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 198 of 309
“People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody.”
“People can only live with their equals, and not even with them; for in the long run they cannot tolerate that someone is their equal.”
“To be abandoned like that! Shut out when you most need to be loved.”
“All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them.”
“..it's awful not to be loved. It's the worst thing in the world...It makes you mean, and violent, and cruel.”
“When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.”
“We think of strangers as stronger and better than we are.”
“George's voice became deeper. He repeated his words rhythmically as though he had said them many times before. 'Guys like us, that work on ranches, are the loneliest guys in the world. They got no family. They don't belong no place. They come to a ranch an' work up a stake, and the first thing you know they're poundin' their tail on some other ranch. They ain't got nothing to look ahead to.”
“You can't fall in love after 40; you know so much about life that you can't get fooled anymore.”
“I've chosen a life that's so different from everybody else's that it cuts me off from them. Practically everybody I know treats me like a guest celebrity. Of course it's my own fault. I feel so damn alone sometimes, I feel like I could just float away into the stratosphere and everybody would stand there looking up at me and not one would haul me back down to earth. No ropes.”
“I'm up all night against my will My medicine won't let me feel anything at all The doctor gave me sleeping pills and I took one Then I feel all alone, sleeping like a stone.”
“It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. It is as if loneliness were a hard and absolute condition of existence; the envelope of flesh and blood on which our eyes are fixed melts before the outstretched hand, and there remains only the capricious, unconsolable and elusive spirit that no eye can follow, no hand can grasp.”
“I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.”
“And that's the insult of it, how always it comes back to a woman being a "good" mother in the world's eyes or a "bad" mother, how everything in a woman's life is funneled through her body between her legs.”
“My life is a very interior and solitary life. I tend not to care that much about external things.”
“Whenever I have talked to anyone at too great length, I am like a man who has drunk too much, and ashamed, doesn't know where to put himself.”
“Let us stay at home: there we are decent. Let us not go out: our defects wait for us at the door, like flies.”
“Remember, you are all alone in the kitchen and no one can see you.”
“Closer of lovely eyes to lovely dreams, Lover of loneliness, and wandering, Of upcast eye, and tender pondering! Thee must I praise above all other glories That smile us on to tell delightful stories.”