“But who are we, where do we come from When all those years Nothing but idle talk is left And we are nowhere in the world?" = MEETING =”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 227 of 309
“Yeah, people do need to realize that just because they've seen me perform for an hour does not mean that we are now close.”
“You could have a bunch of good actors but they can't keep a relationship to save their lives. Everyone thinks it's so glamorous that Ben Affleck is sleeping with all these different chicks. It's only because he can't keep a single relationship because he's working all the time.”
“She kissed me just right, like only a lonely angel can.”
“I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face.”
“Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only.”
“You hung with me when all the others turned away, turned up their noses We liked the same music, we liked the same bands, we liked the same clothes Yeah we told each other that we were the wildest, the wildest things we'd ever seen Now I wish you would have told me, I wish I could have talked to you Just to say goodbye, Bobby Jean.”
“Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.”
“I'm not like a high intellectual. That's the thing.”
“Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.”
“[Many artists], even the greatest ones, are not sure of their own existence. So they search for proof, they judge, they condemn. It strengthens them, it is the beginnings of existence. They are alone!”
“Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself.”
“I lived with the only continuity, day to day, of the me-me-me.”
“In one's youth every person and every event appear to be unique. With age one becomes much more aware that similar events recur. Later on, one is less often delighted or surprised, but also less disappointed than in earlier years.”
“Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me.”
“I have always loved solitude, a trait which tends to increase with age.”
“The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me.”
“Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?”
“How was I able to live alone before, my little everything? Without you I lack self-confidence, passion for work, and enjoyment of life--in short, without you, my life is no life. [Written to his wife, Mileva]”
“In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell.”