“Dirk was, for one of the few times in a life of exuberantly prolific loquacity, wordless.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 217 of 309
“In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.”
“All our stories are simultaneously unique and desperately similar, aren't they?”
“I think maybe I was numb to it last year.. but you know I feel it now more than ever”
“A relationship can give you a gut wrenching feeling sometimes. It's a real emotional ride.”
“We live in a generation of not being in love and not being together But we sure make it feel like we're together. Cause we're scared to see each other with somebody else”
“He aint in your world you can take em off your atlas”
“All the care I would take, all the love that we made.. Now you trying to find somebody to replace what I gave to ya”
“What's a star when his most important fan is missing?”
“Man they treat me like a legend, am I really this cold? I’m really too young to be feeling this old.”
“I'm the least sexy person in real life.”
“If I were related to Monet, I don't know if I would be comfortable becoming an artist because it's too much, the comparison. If I wrote a book and put it out, the comparison to my great-grandfather, the comparison would be hilarious. Every critic, it would be their dream, they'd tear me apart.”
“Once, in an interview with 'V' magazine, I said that I preferred Fitzgerald to Hemingway. I think that Hemingway is an amazing writer, but by being related to him, I had it in my head that I had to like him.”
“I remember having to read 'The Old Man and the Sea,' and I didn't want to read it; I didn't want to like Ernest Hemingway. I was being a stubborn teenager.”
“I wouldn't be in a huge hurry to go back to Kansas. It was just bizarre. There's a lot of very, very heavy set people who believe in whatever they were told, because they didn't seem to get out very much or be interested in leaving where they were. They just didn't seem that curious, and I find that a little hard to deal with.”
“Yeah, my dad was in the foreign service. We lived in India, Indonesia and Africa, and we traveled a lot from those places. I was 10 when we moved back, and I felt like the odd guy out. It wasn't until later that I appreciated it. But coming back I didn't know any TV shows or music, which was even worse.”
“I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.”
“And the other was this: the doctor did want to take off my leg because he thought it was necessary. But you must remember boys in those days were raised for two things: work, and then they made their play; and if you couldn't play baseball and box and play football, why, your life was ended. That was in our boyish minds.”
“I stay away from churches in which I feel like I have to pretend I'm a better person than I am. That sort of thing moves my faith backwards.”
“When I walked into the Christian section of a bookstore, the message was clear: Faith is something you do alone. Rick does not have much tolerance for people living alone. He's like Bill Clinton in that he feels everyone's pain. If Rick thinks somebody is lonely, he can't sleep at night. He wants us all to live with each other and play nice so he can get some rest. Tortured soul.”