“I always seem to suffer some loss of faith on entering cities.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 246 of 309
“My doom and my strength is to be solitary.”
“I like man, but not men.”
“Why has my motley diary no jokes? Because it is a soliloquy and every man is grave alone.”
“Men consort in camp and town But the poet dwells alone.”
“A new person is to me a great event, and hinders me from sleep. I have often had fine fancies about persons which have given me delicious hours; but the joy ends in the day; it yields no fruit.”
“Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.”
“How painful to give a gift to any person of sensibility, or of equality! It is next worst to receiving one”
“I feel some unwillingness to quit the remembrance of the past. With all the hope of the new I feel that we are leaving the old.”
“We dislike talking about our experiences. No explanations are needed for those who have been inside, and the others will understand neither how we felt then nor how we feel now.”
“There was a sentence in your letter that struck me, “I wish I were far away from everything, I am the cause of all, and bring only sorrow to everybody, I alone have brought all this misery on myself and others.” These words struck me because that same feeling, just the same, not more nor less, is also on my conscience.”
“For loneliness, worries, difficulties, the unsatisfied need for kindness and sympathy - that is what is hard to bear.”
“Well, I dare not allow myself any illusions, and I am afraid it may never happen that Father and Mother will really appreciate my art. It is not their fault; we do not see the same things with the same eyes, or have the same thoughts raised in us by them. They will never be able to understand what painting is.”
“Make this decision today. Will you be a good and honest writer, or would you rather be famous, loved, noticed? Tell me, because there are different paths for these two divergent goals. The decision to be a true artist is lonelier and slower, but it will lead to better work and, I think, a better life. Very rarely you will be a good and honest writer and also know a little comfort and some attention and the well wishes of a crowd. This is very rare.”
“Walls are built up between people a hell of a damn sight faster than--broken down.”
“A man, when he burns, leaves only a handful of ashes. No woman can hold him. The wind must blow him away.”
“Personal lyricism is the outcry of prisoner to prisoner from the cell in solitary where each is confined for the duration of his life.”
“I saw that it was all over, put away in a box like a doll no longer cared for, the magical intimacy of our childhood together”
“My '60s plays were as good as most of the other plays I've written ... except I wasn't in a condition to refine them, to help in the rehearsal, or do anything. I was hardly conscious of what was going on except during the hours of the day when I was actually writing ... and that was with the aid of speed.”
“Alone.'Twas her destiny to be ever surrounded by others, yet ever alone.”