“I would get parts and not be able to take them because my mother didn't have a car.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 281 of 309
“If you really want to know something about solitude, become famous.”
“You think your pains and heartbreaks are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. [and then you discover that others have suffered much more than you and your problems look good in comparison]”
“When you’re writing, you’re trying to find out something which you don’t know. The whole language of writing for me is finding out what you don’t want to know, what you don’t want to find out. But something forces you to anyway.”
“These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, they were growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptly against the low ceiling of their actual possibilities. They were filled with rage. All they really knew were two darknesses, the darkness of their lives, which were now closing in on them, and the darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to that other darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed, at once more together than they were at any other time, and more alone.”
“It is strange how the presence of additional people can make you feel more alone.”
“What kind of programmer is so divorced from reality that she thinks she'll get complex software right the first time?”
“I had no idea what time I’d left, how I’d gotten home, who’d been up here, and how long he, she, or they had stayed. Another night, added to the hundreds that had gone before, shrouded in mystery. Really, when you thought about it, it was creepy. My own life was a secret to me.”
“Was I being groomed for some special mission? What possible purpose could an existence like mine serve? When I wasn’t drinking in crappy bars, I was home by myself reading: a life that was achingly lonely, and yet perversely designed to prevent anybody from ever getting close enough to really know me.”
“You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.”
“Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.”
“Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.”
“Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.”
“People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.”
“When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests. I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind.”
“My father and mother separated when I was two months old.”
“I went to the Missing Persons Bureau but no one was there.”
“My father? My father left when I was quite young. Well actually, he was asked to leave. He had trouble metabolizing alcohol.”
“I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians.”
“I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy.”