“I really floated around in the '60s, because I felt comfortable with nothing.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 215 of 309
“I think I quite desperately wanted to have that kind of special companionship [like marriage ] . . . a special relationship, yet I hid from it for many, many years and pretended to be cynical about it.”
“The point of books is to combat loneliness.”
“I'm not afraid of new things. I'm just afraid of feeling alone even when there's somebody else there. I'm afraid of feeling bad. Maybe that's selfish, but it's the way I feel.”
“The severing of an established connection is exponentially more painful than the rejection of an attempted connection.”
“I am not what you see and hear.”
“Who would die for this chance to be fed this death of pleasure with spoons, in their warm homes, alone, unmoving?”
“There's a kind of Ah-ha! Somebody at least for a moment feels about something or sees something the way that I do. It doesn't happen all the time. It's these brief flashes or flames, but I get that sometimes. I feel unalone—intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. I feel human and unalone and that I'm in a deep, significant conversation with another consciousness in fiction and poetry in a way that I don't with other art.”
“It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass ring that usually involves people feeling some way about you – I mean, people wonder why we walk around feeling alienated and lonely and stressed out.”
“And he wishes, in the cold quiet of his archer's heart, that he himself could feel the intensity of their reconciliations as strongly as he feels that of their battles.”
“I miss everyone. I can remember being young and feeling a thing and identifying it as homesickness, and then thinking well now that’s odd, isn’t it, because I was home, all the time. What on earth are we to make of that?”
“The boy, who did everything well and with a natural unslumped grace the wraith himself had always lacked, and whom the wraith had been so terribly eager to see and hear and let him (the son) know he was seen and heard, the son had become a steadily more and more hidden boy, toward the wraith's life's end; and no one else in the wraith and the boy's nuclear family would see or acknowledge this, the fact that the graceful and marvelous boy was disappearing, right before their eyes. They looked but did not see his invisibility.”
“I find in myself a need to get very away.”
“Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.”
“She had a brainy girls discomfort about her own beauty and its effects on folks.”
“It feels intensely twisted to see reigning industry queen Jenna Jameson chilling out at the Vivid booth in Jordaches and a latex bustier and to know already that she has a tattoo of a sundered valentine with the tagline Heart Breaker on her right buttock and a tiny hairless ole just left of her anus.”
“Not having a passport makes me very blasé about what appears in foreign periodicals since I know I'll never see it.”
“No one has ever put anything into my suitcase.”
“I don't ever want to be where I can't just walk into a mall and do what I want without a crowd coming up a round me.”
“I am a book I neither wrote nor read.”