“Nobody wants to phone me, Even collect.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 222 of 309
“I play in a lot of empty rooms.”
“I died last night. Seventy years too young.”
“I'm not really up on what's new. I'm still listening to Run DMC twenty-five years later. In the same way that the baby-boomers in America were forcing '60s music and Motown down our throats, now people of my generation are forcing Tears For Fears and old Hip Hop upon others.”
“The city knows you better than any living person because it has seen you when you are alone.”
“I look sad because I don't have the courage to escape from you. And I think I don't want to understand the truth: for you, I am nothing but a dream. You like to play with life, you're not afraid of anything, not even of me. But I want you to know that I am not an object or a doll: I don't change faces on command, I like to sit down every day in the same place, on my own chair, and I know that you, you like to leave, to go to a new place every day.”
“Nobody in my family or in my neighborhood used the language that they used at the University of Chicago. I remember the first time I heard the word "value" repeated again and again by my professor. Value to me was the price of a frying pan.”
“If only my heart were stone.”
“How would you know if you were the last man on Earth? He said. I don't guess you would know it. You'd just be it. Nobody would know it. It wouldn't make any difference. When you die it's the same as if everybody else died too.”
“It just bothered me that you might think I'm somethin special. I aint.”
“They came upon themselves in a mirror and he almost raised the pistol. It's us, Papa, the boy whispered. It's us.”
“See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire.”
“I was staying in a hotel in San Francisco for a couple of nights, before flying back to the UK. My hotel was a desperate grey block made from paper and people’s screams. At night the sound of strangers having icy sex echoed off the building and poured through the broken air conditioning, like tiny daggers I couldn't see, reminding me of just the tip of what I was missing.”
“Without the sleeping bag I'm just somebody up early in the morning, sitting under a tree. With the sleeping bag I'm nobody up early, sitting under a tree: a slight, but important difference in how I’ll be perceived.”
“I want to avoid people, because there’s only one thing worse than being homeless, and that’s people who are not, knowing that you are.”
“People that talk about living in the real world don't even enjoy living in the real world.”
“At night, lying on your back and staring at the falling snow, it's easy to imagine oneself soaring through the stars.”
“Something about being rejected at Church Camp felt so much more awful than being rejected at school.”
“Don't look at me like I've gotten old or something like that.”
“A lot of people when they retire, they just expire. It happens to men more than women. Women usually have great interest in the family, because the family's always growing and they're always coming to the rescue.”