“I bounded o'er the mountains, by the sides of the deep rivers, and the lonely streams, wherever nature led.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 239 of 309
“In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet.”
“Your still searching for me in every woman. You'll always seek to duplicate what we had. You know it.”
“My relationship with American audiences is the exact same as it always has been. They never came to see my films, and they don't come now.”
“The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.”
“I want the people to love me, but I suppose they never will.”
“I'm a vague, conjunctured personality, more made up of opinions and academic prepossessions than of human traits and red corpuscles.”
“I have no happy fairyland vision that she can win.”
“We never found a real model (for our vision).”
“There is a very holy and a very terrible isolation for the conscience of every man who seeks to read the destiny in affairs for others as well as for himself, for a nation as well as for individuals. That privacy no man can intrude upon. That lonely search of the spirit for the right perhaps no man can assist.”
“Things get very lonely in Washington sometimes. The real voice of the great people of America sometimes sounds faint and distant in that strange city. You hear politics until you wish that both parties were smothered in their own gas.”
“I never knew what Amazon was. I've never seen any of those series, even on cable. I've never seen The Sopranos, or Mad Men. I'm out every night and when I come home, I watch the end of the baseball or basketball game, and there's Charlie Rose and I go to sleep.”
“When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by yourself and you are by nature timid.”
“I've always been interested in being in other people's movies. I never get any offers.”
“Everyone wants to get out of living where they're living now, because life is a pretty tough proposition and not much fun. But when you think back to earlier times, you only extrapolate the nice things.”
“A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.”
“My mom's never been married. I've never even seen my mom kiss a dude.”
“I was born and raised in East Los Angeles by a single mom who had three biological kids and adopted four more. I never met my dad.”
“I'm not a good father and they're not children any more; the eldest is in his fifties. My relationship with their mothers broke down and, because of what the law was, they went with their mothers and were imbued with their mothers' morality in life and they were not my people any more.”
“This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.”