“She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 21 of 309
“I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.”
“You don't have to be a house to be haunted.”
“But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.”
“I have gone temporarily deaf and haven't any idea what you said, Harry.”
“If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.”
“All the girls in the world were divided into two classes: one class included all the girls in the world except her, and they had all the usual human feelings and were very ordinary girls; while the other class -herself alone- had no weaknesses and was superior to all humanity.”
“I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.”
“Sometimes he caught himself listening to the sound of his own voice. He thought that in her eyes he would ascent to an angelical stature; and, as he attached the fervent nature of his companion more and more closely to him, he heard the strange impersonal voice which he recognised as his own, insisting on the soul's incurable lonliness. We cannot give ourselves, it said: we are our own.”
“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
“Betrayed and wronged in everything, I’ll flee this bitter world where vice is king, And seek some spot unpeopled and apart Where I’ll be free to have an honest heart. - Molière, The Misanthrope”
“The more you think about your own self, the more self-centred you are, the more trouble even small problems can create in your mind. The stronger your sense of 'I', the narrower the scope of your thinking becomes; then even small obstacles become unbearable. On the other hand, if you concern yourself mainly with others, the broader your thinking becomes, and life's inevitable difficulties disturb you less.”
“Once upon a midnight dreary”
“Theres a bunch of Elvis Costello records that made all the difference between feeling like a total freak and feeling like ... only a freak. A freak among other freaks”
“I got tired of doing battle with people thinking I was a little weird because I wasn't in a band making happy, stilted music. The only people who really seem weird to me are people who think they're normal. People who think it's possible to be normal just by doing the same things that most people do. Is there a most people? I don't know. Television makes it seem like there is, but I think that might just be television.”
“A man can be himself only so long as he is alone.”
“I'm used on every level. I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never close my eyes. It's horrible.”
“Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they did, but we don't.”
“the whole way down, I was only thinking one thing . . . L E N A”
“I am loved by thousands, but I feel like the loneliest man in the world.”