“When I didn't have friends, I had books.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 267 of 309
“Can you see me? Can you hear me? Does anything I say mean anything to you?”
“Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people.”
“What was the difference between love and the agony of waiting? Like love, the agony of waiting began in the muscles and somewhere around the upper belly but soon spread out to the chest, the thighs, and the forehead, to invade the entire body with numbing force.”
“Most of the time it's not the Europeans who belittle us. What happens when we look at them is that we belittle ourselves. When we undertake the pilgrimage, it's not just to escape the tyranny at home but also to reach to the depths of our souls. The day arrives when the guilty must return to save those who could not find the courage to leave.”
“Touch is... one of the most ancient transactions, a defiance of the plasma membrane and the loneliness it brought.”
“The only place I am recognized all the time is in L.A. and otherwise, it's only about once a day. I feel pretty anonymous.”
“Normally I can't watch myself at all, and watching myself makes me cringe, and I cover my face, and it's very hard to watch.”
“I am more a teenager than anyone else I know. One minute I feel really adult and the next minute I say, 'Let's play hide-and-seek.'”
“Of the great entrepreneurs of this era, people will have forgotten Steve Jobs.”
“I remember one thing that marred this time for me; the movie "Gone with the Wind." When it played in Mason [MI], I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug.”
“Oliver McCall was someone who I never really got to know too well, and he had some well-publicized problems.”
“I loved being around live rocking music, but I never knew what to do with myself socially at a show or club. I discovered that the dance floor was the perfect place to hide in plain sight.”
“When I was four, I asked my mother for a valet for my birthday.”
“I didn't play with other children.”
“People are lonely, and only animals with fancy shoes.”
“ah, you always go for the ones who don't really want you”
“and nobody knows what’s going to happen to anybody besides the forlorn rags of growing old”
“Marylou was watching Dean as she had watched him clear across the country and back, out of the corner of her eye--with a sullen, sad air, as though she wanted to cut off his head and hide it in her closet, an envious and rueful love of him so amazingly himself, all raging and sniffy and crazy-wayed, a smile of tender dotage but also sinister envy that frightened me about her, a love she knew would never bear fruit because when she looked at his hangjawed bony face with its male self-containment and absentmindedness she knew he was too mad.”
“I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why.”