“When I was playing soccer at the age of 14, the first thing we'd do before going out onto the field would be to climb up on one another's thighs and massage the legs; it was a regular thing. None of us had a thought of being gay, absolutely not, and it's the same with most bodybuilders.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 232 of 309
“Women find little pleasure in the society of women.”
“The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.”
“I wanted to resign from the planet, not just music. It stopped being fun with success. Money got in the way. Everybody got greedy, including me. Fear set in. I got miserable when I became a commodity.”
“My worst fears were confirmed as Thierry and I sat in the centre circle after the final whistle. His name was sung from the rooftops, while my contribution was recognised by a deafening silence. It was like I was the invisible man”
“He's a really nice guy, if only I weren't me.”
“We were young. We were bored. And the old electroshock therapy machine was just under the stairs in a box next to the Hoover.”
“There's not enough of me left over.”
“Most of us have love in our lives. Most of us love other people are are ourselves loved by others. But make no mistake: you are alone in the world. You were born alone, even if you were born conjoined. And you die alone, unable to bring a single person with you.”
“Like every child, I adored her. Until I formed a brain and got to know her.”
“When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.”
“I would like to have seen my sons growing up.”
“The French say that to part is to die a little. To be forgotten too is to die a little. It is to lose some of the links that anchor us to the rest of humanity.”
“I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.”
“I think I am a little jealous of women who have great girlfriends as adults.”
“He never felt lonliness except when he was happy.”
“She fell asleep, lying there, her hand clasping his. Her last awareness, before she surrendered the responsibility of consciousness, was the sense of an enormous void, the void of a city and of a continent, where she would never be able to find the man whom she had no right to seek.”
“Im waiting, for what, my kind of people, what kind is that, i can tell my kind of people by their faces, by something in their faces.”
“Those touchy mediocrities who sit trembling lest someone's work prove greater than their own - they have no inkling of the loneliness that comes when you reach the top. The loneliness for an equal - for a mind to respect and an achievement to admire.”
“We are one...alone...and only...and we love you who are one...alone...and only. We looked into each other's eyes and we knew the breath of a miracle had touched us, and fled, and left us groping vainly. And we felt torn, torn for some word we could not find.”