“I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 214 of 309
“You know how people say they're either like a cat or a dog? I feel like a cat. I just want to be alone. Isn't that weird? It's a lot to take in.”
“His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.”
“Once you have lived with another, it is a great torture to have to live alone.”
“But the hearts of small children are delicate organs. A cruel beginning in this world can twist them into curious shapes.”
“They are the we of me.”
“But no value has been put on human life; it is given to us free and taken without being paid for. What is it worth? If you look around, at times the value may seem to be little or nothing at all. Often after you have sweated and tried and things are not better for you, there comes a feeling deep down in the soul that you are not worth much.”
“There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.”
“On being asked what condition of man he considered the most pitiable: A lonesome man on a rainy day who does not know how to read.”
“A lonely man on a rainy night who cannot read.”
“If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture.”
“A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can never be spent.”
“Marriage is lonelier than solitude.”
“I think my work comes out of both an intense desire for connection and what it means to feel isolated. There's always going to be a kind of tidal movement back and forth between the two.”
“When someone, let's say a teacher, speaks of the world and you are not in it, it's like looking into the mirror and seeing nothing.”
“The liar leads an existence of unutterable loneliness.”
“Since we're not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other.Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we're not young.”
“Much male fear of feminism is the fear that, in becoming whole human beings, women will cease to mother men, to provide the breast, the lullaby, the continuous attention associated by the infant with the mother. Much male fear of feminism is infantilism–the longing to remain the mother’s son, to possess a woman who exists purely for him.”
“I'm regarded quite asexually by a lot of people. And the people that understand me the best are nearer to what I understand about me.”
“I spent so much time in my bedroom. It really was my entire world. I had books up there, my music up there, my record player. Going from my world upstairs out onto the street, I had to pass through this no-man's-land of the living room, you know, and out the front hall.”