“People never believe you.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 262 of 309
“I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.”
“Was it love when somebody filled a space in your life that yawned inside you, once they had gone?”
“Whenever he was in company he wanted to get away, and whenever he was alone he wanted company.”
“But I was the most unashamed lone parent you were ever going to meet.”
“You lose your individuality a huge amount when you have no money, and I certainly had that experience.”
“We do stigmatise teens a lot and see them as scary and alien.”
“There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.”
“I always felt an outsider.”
“I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.”
“I knew no one who'd ever been in the public eye.”
“He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself.”
“He might have been encased in a thick glass bubble, so separate did he feel from his three dining companions. It was a sensation with which he was only too familiar, that of walking in a giant sphere of worry, enclosed by it, watching his own terrors roll by, obscuring the outside world.”
“Why was she always so craven, so apologetic? He had always seen Ruth as separate, good and untainted. As a child, his parents had appeared to him as starkly black and white, the one bad and frightening, the other good and kind. Yet as he had grown older, he kept coming up hard in his mind against Ruth's willing blindness, to her constant apologia for his father, to the unshakeable allegiance to her false idol.”
“You’re not supposed to dislike your own child. You were supposed to like them no matter what, even if they were not what you wanted.”
“Both could feel the relationship crumbling to pieces beneath the weight of everything that Gavin refused to say.”
“Studying the young woman’s long thin legs, Tessa wondered how different her life would have been if she had had legs like that. She could not help but suspect that it would have been almost entirely different.”
“He was slumped in the back, gazing out of the window, as though his parents were two people who had picked him up hitchhiking, connected to him merely by chance and proximity.”
“For me, I think [art] exists in a cave. I am in a cave. I have my own editing place, but I'm not powerful enough to amass the resources to keep doing movies every two or three years.”
“The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.”