“Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 26 of 309
“What is it in absinthe that makes it a separate cult? The effects of its abuse are totally distinct from those of other stimulants. Even in ruin and in degradation it remains a thing apart: its victims wear a ghastly aureole all their own, and in their peculiar hell yet gloat with a sinister perversion of pride that they are not as other men.”
“My parents were divorced by the time I was even conscious - like I don't remember them ever being together.”
“He missed Hogwarts so much it was like having a constant stomachache. He missed the castle, with its secret passageways and ghosts, his classes, … the mail arriving by owl, eating banquets in the Great Hall, sleeping in his four-poster bed in the tower dormitory, visiting the gamekeeper, Hagrid, in his cabin next to the Forbidden Forest in the grounds, and especially, Quidditch, the most popular sport in the wizarding world”
“What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!”
“The loneliest feeling in the world is when you think you are leading the parade and turn to find that no one is following you. No president who badly misguesses public opinion will last very long.”
“I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.”
“Every man has his secret sorrows.”
“At school I pretended I had a normal life, but I felt lonely all the time and different from everyone else. I never felt like I fit in, and I wasn't allowed to participate in after-school activities, go to sports events or parties or date boys. Many times I had to make up stories about why I couldn't do anything with my classmates.”
“There are no friends; only moments of friendship.”
“In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one.”
“And I would hear yet once before I perish The voice which was my music... Speak to me!”
“Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.”
“As far as I am concerned, I resign from humanity. I no longer want to be, nor can still be, a man. What should I do? Work for a social and political system, make a girl miserable? Hunt for weaknesses in philosophical systems, fight for moral and esthetic ideals? It’s all too little. I renounce my humanity even though I may find myself alone. But am I not already alone in this world from which I no longer expect anything?”
“Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.”
“A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.”
“My friends, there are no friends.”
“Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged.”
“No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.”
“I don't actually like people. I'm a loner and if I had my way I'd just walk my dogs every day, never talk to anyone and then die.”