“'Haunted by the past' is a commonplace phrase because it's a commonplace experience. Even if one is not, strictly speaking, 'haunted', the past is perpetually with one in the present, and the longer it grows and the further it recedes the stronger its presence seems to become.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 204 of 309
“Some people are just not meant to be in this world. It's just too much for them.”
“The only thing man knows instinctively is how to weep.”
“I knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long as no one wanted to be let in, I didn't have to shut anyone out.”
“Shame weighs a lot more than flesh and bone.”
“There were the phone calls and Elvis had asked me to visit him in Los Angeles. This was in 1962.”
“If I could even do that [playing] in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball.”
“I miss the guys, and I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second.”
“I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second. If I could even do that in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball. I don't miss the crowds or the travel or even being in the big leagues. I just miss being able to take batting practice and being able to swing as hard as I can. That's all I miss.”
“Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? A nation turns its lonely eyes to you.”
“I'm laying out my winter clothes and wishing I was gone, Going home, where the new york city winters aren't bleedin' me.”
“Who's gonna love you when your looks are gone?”
“I am just a poor boy, though my story's seldom told, and I have squandered my resistance, for a pocket full of mumbles, such are promises. All lies in jest, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest...la-la-la-la-la-la-la-lala-la-la-la-la...”
“I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.”
“It was mainly a growing farm, although we did have chickens and a few animals, but I did help to some degree with that. I have to say that it was not my favorite association.I did what I was asked to do.”
“To hear people talk, you would think no one ever did anything but love each other. But when you look for it, when you search out this love everyone is always talking about, it is nowhere to be found; and when someone looks for love from you, you find you are not able to give it, you are not able to hold the trust and dreams they want you to hold, any more than you could cradle water in your arms.”
“Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.”
“I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have the same challenges every day.”
“Church of painful love - unfulfilled,unrequited & unattained”
“She cried for the life she could not control. She cried for the mentor who had died before her eyes. She cried for the profound loneliness that filled her heart. But, above all, she cried for the future ... which suddenly felt so uncertain.”