“Single's fun - you don't have to check in with your girl, but it's not easy. I do get lonely.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 251 of 309
“Imagine how frustrating it is, being completely locked up and watching your family leave, your wife and children, and not being able to do anything about it.”
“I used to be scared of the Candyman. You'd say his name three times in the mirror and then he'd come get you. I was terrified of that stuff becoming true. My older cousins used to say things to make us believe crazy stories like that, so I was scared of the Candymanuntil I knew better.”
“I really love playing music with other people. It's more fun to be on the road with others. It's kind of lonely out there when you play on your own!”
“I heard a lot in school, 'You've got a really great talent, but there's no way you're going to be a dancer with that body.”
“Sometimes you just have to be by yourself, you need a little space and time.”
“I'm not a social retard, but I prefer to go unnoticed.”
“I always felt that nobody was going to understand me, going to understand what I felt about things. I guess that's why I started writing. At least on paper I could put down what I thought.”
“I'd met Sharon Tate at the Cannes Film Festival.”
“Poor slob without a name. It's a little inconvenient, his not having a name. But I haven't the right to give him one: he'll have to wait until he belongs to somebody. We just sort of took up by the river one day, we don't belong to each other: he's an independent, and so am I. I don't want to own anything until I know I've found the place where me and things belong together.”
“My daughter's mother and I are no longer dating, and the people I'm most likely to date are those around me, who are athletes.”
“Only her tight, tight eyes were left. They were always left...They were everything. Everything was there, in them...Thrown, in this way, into the binding conviction that only a miracle could relieve her, she would never know her beauty. She would see only what there was to see: the eyes of other people.”
“Nobody loved her and she wouldn’t have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.”
“You been gone too long, Sula. Not too long, but maybe too far.”
“I want to feel what I feel. What's mine. Even if it's not happiness, whatever that means. Because you're all you've got.”
“She left me the way people leave a hotel room. A hotel room is a place to be when you are doing something else. Of itself it is of no consequence to one's major scheme. A hotel room is convenient. But its convenience is limited to the time you need it while you are in that particular town on that particular business; you hope it is comfortable, but prefer, rather, that it be anoymous. It is not, after all, where you live.”
“In fact her maturity and blood kinship converted her passion to fever, so it was more affliction than affection. It literally knocked her down at night, and raised her up in the morning, for when she dragged herself off to bed, having spent another day without his presence, her heart beat like a gloved fist against her ribs. And in the morning, long before she was fully awake, she felt a longing so bitter and tight it yanked her out of a sleep swept clean of dreams.”
“When you're a kid and you're trying to find your own voice, it's rather daunting to hear somebody like Howlin' Wolf, because you know that you'll never achieve that.”
“Got 27 children I never see.”
“Adam wasn't lonely because he was imperfect but because he was perfect. The ache for friends is not the result of sin.”