“It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 202 of 309
“From very early on in my childhood - four, five years old - I felt alien to the human race. I felt very comfortable with thinking I was from another planet, because I felt disconnected - I was very tall and skinny, and I didn't look like anybody else, I didn't even look like any member of my family.”
“I'm very comfortable with being a female now but when I was a little kid I only wanted to be a boy. I didn't want to be a girl. I didn't feel like a man inside... being a boy was just cooler.”
“As a child I was such an intense daydreamer; I could be so gone that I had to be smacked to come back. They were really worried that I had some kind of catatonia or something because I would go so far out. Because all I wanted to do was talk to god as a child.”
“I loved books; I read my childhood away. I was more interested in my interior world.”
“I never had any dates. I never really had any boyfriends. I was the girl who did the guys' homework. I was really crazy about guys but I was always like one of the boys. The guys I always fell in love with were completely inaccessible.”
“We went our separate ways, but within walking distance of one another.”
“I'm a very private person that prefers a low profile.”
“All we ever got in those [early] days was "Where are you from? Liverpool? You'll have to be in London before you can do it. Nobody's ever done it from Liverpool.”
“My dad, bless him, was a musician. And his dad had thought that his music was rubbish.”
“I feel that if I said anything about John, I would have to sit here for five days and say it all. Or I don't want to say anything.”
“Because i've suffered. Because many times in my life i have tried to love with all my heart, and my love has wound up being trampled or betrayed.”
“If you are never alone, you cannot know yourself.”
“And I began to feel sorry for myself; for so many years, my drawer full of memories had held the same old stories.”
“I'm not a person that socializes very well.”
“In all the languages in the world, there is the same proverb: "What the eyes don't see, the heart doesn't grieve over." Well, I say that there isn't an ounce of truth in it. The further off they are, the closer to the heart are all those feelings that we try to repress and forget.”
“I talk to my readers on social networking sites, but I never tell them what the book is about. Writing is lonely, so from time to time I talk to them on the Internet. It's like chatting at a bar without leaving your office. I talk with them about a lot of things other than my books.”
“A schizophrenic is a person who already has a natural tendency to absent himself from this world.”
“I was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is. If I stayed like that, I would miss out on everything good that these few days with him might offer.”
“I came to realize that I was always looking for myself in the women I loved. I looked at their lovely, clean faces, and saw myself reflected in them. They, on the other hand, looked at me and saw the dirt on my face and, however intelligent and self confident they were, they ended up seeing themselves reflected in me and thinking that they were worse than they were. Please don't let that happen to you.”