“A man could not always be where he belonged, though.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 285 of 309
“No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder.”
“Hell is not to love anymore.”
“All men thirst to confess their crimes more than tired beasts thirst for water; but they naturally object to confessing them while other people, who have also committed the same crimes, sit by and laugh at them.”
“I do not believe that any human being is fundamentally happier for being finally lost in a crowd, even if it is called a crowd of comrades.”
“She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.”
“Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other than books and movies, and my own imagination.”
“I'm a much worse guest than I am a host, and I'm not an awfully good host either. I really like being alone.”
“My dad isn't sure how I make a living because I'm not in the newspapers or on music shows any more. The world is bigger than England, however, but for the large part, yes, people don't know who I am. What are you gonna do? Unless you're a superstar act that attracts young people because it might be their last chance to see you before you die, then it's fairly typical. I'm astonished that I have any audience at all, to be honest.”
“If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive-then don't be a writer.”
“People change with time. There are things that happened to a person in his childhood and years later they seem to him alien and strange. I am trying to decipher that child. Sometimes he is a stranger to me. When you think about when you were 14, don't you feel a certain alienation?”
“He was bored now when Emma suddenly began to sob on his breast; and his heart, like the people who can only stand a certain amount of music, became drowsy through indifference to the vibrations of a love whose subtleties he could no longer distinguish.”
“Emma was no asleep, she was pretending to be asleep; and, while he was dozing off at her side, she lay awake, dreaming other dreams.”
“I've always been the kind of woman who had a man in her life even when he was the wrong man.”
“Either the world is so tiny or we are enormous; in either case, we fill it completely.”
“We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.”
“There they lay, but not in the forgetfulness of the previous night. She was seeking and he was seeking, they raged and contorted their faces and bored their heads into each others bosom in the urgency of seeking something, and their embraces and their tossing limbs did not avail to make them forget, but only reminded them of what they sought”
“I wish my father could be around.”
“I wish you all the aloneness you hunger for.”
“Its hard for me to grasp that I might somehow be my fathers equal in any way.”