“We are stratified creatures, creatures full of abysses, with a soul of inconstant quicksilver, with a mind whose color and shape change as in a kaleidoscope that is constantly shaken.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 30 of 309
“Once, when I was young and true. Someone left me sad - Broke my brittle heart in two; And that is very bad. Love is for unlucky folk, Love is but a curse. Once there was a heart I broke; And that, I think, is worse.”
“Anybody who's ever gone through a hard time - any outsider's perception, no matter how much information they're given, they have no idea what the person's life is like.”
“I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.”
“Home may be where the heart is but it's no place to spend Wednesday afternoon.”
“I'm single because I was born that way.”
“People who are not in love fail to understand how an intelligent man can suffer because of a very ordinary woman. This is like being surprised that anyone should be stricken with cholera because of a creature so insignificant as the common bacillus.”
“One should never fall in the belief that you can find someone to pick you up.”
“To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication. Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have. Being a good actor isn't easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I'm done.”
“Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without.”
“If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.”
“Nothing hurts more than realizing they meant everything to you, but you meant nothing to them.”
“After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.”
“No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider.”
“I have as much privacy as a goldfish in a bowl.”
“How good would it be if one could die by throwing oneself into an infinite void.”
“There are those who worship loneliness, I'm not one of them In this age of fiberglass I'm searching for a gem The crystal ball up on the wall hasn't shown me nothing yet I've paid the price of solitude, but at last I'm out of debt”
“Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.”
“And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies.”
“One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.”