“We all have such fateful objects -- it may be a recurrent landscape in one case, a number in another -- carefully chosen by the gods to attract events of specific significance for us: here shall John always stumble; there shall Jane's heart always break.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 249 of 309
“There is nothing more atrociously cruel than an adored child.”
“Solitude was corrupting me.”
“There was no Lo to behold.”
“It's no wonder Michelle Obama is telling everybody you better breast-feed your baby-yeah, you better-because the price of milk is so high right now!”
“I suffer from the sense that everything good in my life is about to go away.”
“Well, I'm not a natural gym person myself, anyway.”
“It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.”
“Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains.”
“I listen to a lot of really old western and country music. Theres a lot of cool stuff in there all the heartbreak of the country darkness.”
“Well, everybody has a history.”
“But there are things you can't consult anybody about.”
“There's a kind of emptiness at the center of life ... nothing to form your life on, or by.”
“Can we find nothing good to say about TV? Well, yes, it brings scattered solitaries into a sort of communion. TV allows your isolated American to think that he participates in the life of the entire country. It does not actually place him in a community, but his heart is warmed with the suggestion (on the whole false) that there is a community somewhere in the vicinity and that his atomized consciousness will be drawn back toward the whole.”
“I've never gone anywhere where the men have come up to my infantile expectations. I always have gone through life constantly being surprised by the extreme, marvelous qualities of a small minority of men. But I can't see the rest of them. They seem awful rubbish.”
“But who has time to write memoirs? I’m still living my memoirs.”
“When you're a kid, you don't want to be teased.”
“When I'm single, I don't focus. I focus on a guy if he's a boyfriend, but I don't focus on finding a boyfriend. They're never around when you want them.”
“LA's a very hard place to be unless you have people there that love you. It can be very, very lonely, and it can eat you up if you don't take care of yourself. In LA, nobody wants to talk to each other, everybody's giving each other catty looks.”
“I'm so tired of hearing casting directors ask if I have a sore throat. The people who have told me that my voice is distinctive, it's unusual...those people have always been close to my heart.”