“I’ve never dreamed of becoming a model. As a child I was bullied and insulted as ugly”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 266 of 309
“I was missing the opportunity to see my friends' children grow up, to have my son go to his friends' homes and be involved with their parents.”
“I understand I have no place here. I understand I am lost in the god's eye. I understand I must find my purpose or I will go mad in this green, godless place.”
“I was a complete outsider in high school.”
“I knew those feelings of wanting to be with another brother were not dead; they were just asleep.”
“Don't go where I can't follow!”
“I cannot,' said Merry. 'I have never seen them. I have never been outside of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like, I don't think I should have had the heart to leave it.”
“We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just”
“I wished to be loved by another. But I desire no man's pity.”
“Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with.”
“My father, we bumped heads when I was younger, much younger... I had different ideas that I shared with him. He didn't like them as much. He gets upset or whatever. I guess I had a strong opinion from when I was a little boy.”
“I've never read one book about my father.”
“Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.”
“It's always a disappointing business confronting my own reflection. My body isn't bad. It's a perfectly nice, serviceable body. It's just that the external me- the study, lightly wrinkled, handbagged me- does so little credit to the stuff that's inside.”
“When you live alone, your furnishings, your possessions, are always confronting you with the thinness of your existence.”
“And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.”
“Please God, please suh, don't let him love nobody else but me. Maybe Ah'm is uh fool, Lawd, lak dey say, but Lawd, Ah been so lonesome, and Ah been waitin', Jesus. Ah done waited uh long time.”
“Among the thousand white persons, I am a dark rock surged upon, and overswept.”
“I do miss the people in the audience and the fun: "I came with my mother! And this is my mother!" I miss that. I miss: "My cousin and I came all the way from...." I miss that. I don't miss this - who is left to interview?”
“"Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do.”