“No-one knows what I do in my private, spare time, so I don't see why anyone would assume I'm celibate or somehow turning into a Garboesque character.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 283 of 309
“Right now I'm in 'Twilight' and I go around to signings and there are people screaming and crying, and it's so surreal. I know that when this is over in a month or two and whenever 'Twilight''s no longer relevant, that doesn't live on for me. It's because of this. It's not very often that this happens for people.”
“I feel so out of place here. No matter how much money the Republic throws at me, I will forever be the boy from the streets.”
“Now, as we stand three feet apart and stare at each other, I feel the full distance that comes with spending so much time apart, a moment filled with the electricity of a first meeting and the uncertainty of strangers.”
“I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me and that I've made of myself, as a sex symbol. Men expect so much, and I can't live up to it.”
“They will only care when you're gone.”
“I could have loved you once And said it But then you went away And when you came back Love was a forgotten word, Remember?”
“I'll think I have a few wonderful friends and all of a sudden, ooh, here it comes. They do a lot of things. They talk about you to the press, to their friends, tell stories, and you know, it's disappointing.”
“When I was a youngster I lived with different families. I nearly always felt closer to the man of the house. Maybe because I always dreamed of having a father of my own.”
“In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon.”
“I'm so many people. They shock me sometimes. I wish I was just me! I used to think I was going crazy, until I discovered that some people I admired were like that to.”
“People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person.”
“I went to an all boys' school in South London and the only god was sport.”
“So he lived, not knowing and not seeing any chance of knowing what he was and for what purpose he had been placed in the word.”
“We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.”
“Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support.”
“Then one day along come a Friday and that a unlucky star day and I playin' round de house and marster Williams come up and say, "Delis, will you 'low Jim walk down the street with me?" My mammy say, "All right, Jim, you be a good boy," and dat de las' time I ever heard her speak, or ever see her. We walks down whar de houses grows close together and pretty soon comes to de slave market. I ain't seed it 'fore, but when marster Williams says, "Git up on de block," I got a funny feelin', and I knows what has happened.”
“I'm very cagey about making friends, and I rarely do.”
“Too many of us are lonely ministers practicing a lonely ministry.”
“In solitude we become aware that our worth is not the same as our usefulness.”