“Peter Parker has superpowers, but he still has trouble making rent every month. I identify with that in a way that I don't with, like, Superman, for instance. He's just less interesting because he's too perfect.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 252 of 309
“I believe the things that happened to me as a child scarred me terribly, and I wish somebody would have helped me with some of the things that happened.”
“Yesterday I wrote the majority of a song called 'Burn the Nightclub Down' which was about kind of driving into Cleveland full of dread at the prospect of playing at this night club and actually just the night before I had called my girlfriend whose birthday it was. And it's her birthday and here I am on the road in some hellhole in Ann Arbor in Michigan.”
“One of the difficulties in living the lifestyle I lead is that it is hard to get my friends in one place.”
“The kind of solace that arises from having company in misery is spiteful.”
“No one can be despised by another until he has learned to despise himself.”
“Those who pass their lives in foreign travel find they contract many ties of hospitality, but form no friendships.”
“I always ask my dad why wasn't I a lefty? Even when I was younger I wanted to be lefty. I could have been really good.”
“People claim that love is the deepest feeling, but don't you believe it. Loneliness is the most affecting of human emotions. Nothing makes life more vivid. If you wish to live in the moment, I recommend intense loneliness.”
“Even though I get a lot done with my solitude, and I make the best use of it possible, I always think solitude is an interlude in a period of time, which is populated by others.”
“And I think that in myself (and perhaps evident in what I write) fear of loss and the corresponding instinct to protect myself against loss are potent forces.”
“They may already know too much about their mother and father--nothing being more factual than divorce, where so much has to be explained and worked through intelligently (though they have tried to stay equable). I've noticed this is often the time when children begin calling their parents by their first names, becoming little ironists after their parents' faults. What could be lonelier for a parent than to be criticized by his child on a first-name basis?”
“I didn't have a choice growing up but to be more insecure because others had more.”
“I'm more private than people realize. I'm not that easy to get to know.”
“I've always been kind of an escape artist. I think that I thought the day-to-day reality of things was unbearably flat.”
“For 45 years I've worked without an audience.”
“I was living, growing up in a very traditional household and yet at the same time I was going to school in the United States where I was taught the importance of personal preference, so at home it was all about learning your duties and responsibilities whereas in school it was all about well you get to decide what you want you want to eat.”
“The lonely heart you see tonight will not give up without a fight.”
“My mother had a fear of doctors - other than her daughter marrying one.”
“I'm always wearing Spanx, eating ice cream and feeling a bit lonely.”