“I feel that L.A. has not always been my strongest base for support. That can be for various reasons.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 254 of 309
“How easy it is to be unknown!”
“Because I know what it feels like to be used, valued only for what you can do... not who you are, not who you want to be.”
“I would rather be a swineherd, understood by the swine, than a poet misunderstood by men.”
“I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.”
“Something sinister in the tone Told me my secret must be known: Word I was in the house alone Somehow must have gotten abroad, Word I was in my life alone, Word I had no one left but God.”
“I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain - and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat And dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet. When far away an interrupted cry Came over houses from another street, But not to call me back or say good-bye; And further still at an unearthly light, One luminary clock against the sky Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night.”
“But he had gone his way, the grass all mown, And I must be, as he had been - alone, As all must be, I said within my heart, Whether they work together or apart.”
“One age is like another for the soul.”
“The nearest friends can go With anyone to death, comes so far short They might as well not try to go at all.”
“I am one who has been acquainted with the night”
“When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.”
“Every kid loves fairy tales, stories of witches and giants and magicians. Then, when you get a little older you can't read fairy tales anymore.”
“That's what everybody tells me. "I would've had a great comic-book collection, but my mother made me throw them away." But when I was growing up, my mother didn't care. As long as I was reading, she didn't care if my room was filled with comics. I could have saved everything. I was just too stupid to do it.”
“Sometimes people think that because you have money and position you are immune from the human experience. But I can feel as lonesome and lost as the next man when I turn the key in the door and go into an empty house that is usually full of kids and dogs.”
“Only a numskull is pleased at being a so-called "success" with women, only a dunderhead is puffed up by it. A real man is much more likely to be dismayed at realizing that a woman has lost her heart to him when he can't reciprocate her feelings.”
“There's never a man looked me between the eyes and seen a good day a'terward.”
“This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories.”
“To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised dais, and appeal at once to our respect and pity.”
“If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.”