“Unlike a child in a totally urban environment, my friends and peer group were not only other children, but also wild and domesticated animals, plants of every sort, brooks and waterfalls, rocks and sand.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 22 of 309
“My body, now close to fifty years of age, has become an old tree that bears bitter peaches, a snail which has lost its shell, a bagworm separated from its bag; it drifts with the winds and clouds that know no destination. Morning and night I have eaten traveler's fare, and have held out for alms a pilgrim's wallet.”
“I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.”
“He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.”
“No one knows what it's like ... to be a dustbin ... in Shaftesbury ... with hooligans.”
“You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only.”
“In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.”
“I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean.”
“all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.”
“I’m the kind of person who likes to be by himself. To put a finer point on it, I’m the type of person who doesn’t find it painful to be alone. I find spending an hour or two every day running alone, not speaking to anyone, as well as four or five hours alone at my desk, to be neither difficult nor boring. I’ve had this tendency ever since I was young, when, given a choice, I much preferred reading books on my own or concentrating on listening to music over being with someone else. I could always think of things to do by myself.”
“I don't want to be understood because if people understand me, they get tired of me.”
“Nature wants children to be children before men... Childhood has its own seeing, thinking and feeling.”
“(memory is) A strange echo, which stores its replicas according to some other acoustic than consciousness or expectation.”
“We have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one to guide us. Our only guide is our homesickness.”
“A boy and a girl, dressed in the T-shirts and denim that are the shabby uniform of this age.”
“There’s a lot of times that both myself and my brother wish, obviously, that we were just completely normal.”
“Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder.”
“America, I've given you all and now I'm nothing.”
“A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.”
“The best way to live a miserable life is to pay attention to what other people are saying about you.”