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Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 250 of 309
“I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'”
“Things have changed very much, several times, since I grew up, and, like everyone in New York except the intellectuals, I have led several lives and I still lead some of them.”
“The bloom of Monticello is chilled by my solitude.”
“Any woodsman can tell you that in a broken and sundered nest, one can hardly find more than a precious few whole eggs. So it is with the family.”
“Without society, and a society to our taste, men are never contented.”
“I can't stand to see myself act. It just makes me cringe.”
“When I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn't have any money and I was living in my car. I wasn't averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?”
“Solitude is so necessary both for society and for the individual that when society fails to provide sufficient solitude to develop the inner life of the persons who compose it, they rebel and seek false solitudes.”
“We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation”
“The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.”
“I miss my family, and I like being a tourist when I go back.”
“I was bullied every day at school because I carried a briefcase. I could have left it at home. But I thought it looked great! I didn't understand why anyone else didn't think so.”
“It was like one of those dreams at high school when everyone else has clothes on except you.”
“I'm actually very introverted. I'm very shy. I'm very emotional.”
“Oprah Winfrey today you are surrounded by nothing but love.”
“My wife keeps on telling me my worst fault is that I keep things to myself and appear relaxed. But I am really in a room in my own head and not hearing a thing anyone is saying.”
“But I also think all of the great stories in literature deal with loneliness. Sometimes it's by way of heartbreak, sometimes it's by way of injustice, sometimes it's by way of fate. There's an infinite number of ways to examine it.”
“But the battles against loneliness that I fought when I was 16 are very different from those I fought when I was 27, and those are very different from the ones I fight at 44.”
“Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me who never made it. And the primary reason was always that they couldn't stand to be alone for several hours a day. Any writer worth anything has mastered the art. The art of solitude.”