“To love is to tire of being alone; it is therefore a cowardice, a betrayal of ourselves. (It is exceedingly important that we not love.)”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 32 of 309
“I seek and don’t find myself. I belong to chrysanthemum hours, neatly lined up in flowerpots.”
“Up until I was eleven years old, I thought I was the only one of my kind in the world. I couldn't find anybody else who felt as I did.”
“...you're a rare rare find A troubled cure For a troubled mind”
“There are people who cannot risk loneliness with the experience. They always have to be in a flock and have human contact.”
“I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can't enjoy the deep wells of experience. Maybe it's always been this way, when the heart tends to shut down. If only the heart shut down and there were no repercussions, it would be O.K., but when the heart shuts down, the whole system goes into a kind of despair that is intolerable.”
“Yeah, I like being on my own. I do. I tend to be a loner, so I'm okay. I'm not okay when I have to be around everyone all the time.”
“I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you.”
“The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.”
“Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.”
“I've had three wives, six children and six grandchildren and I still don't understand women”
“Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.”
“Be the kind of person you would like to be with. Some people come into our lives, make footprints on our hearts and we are never the same. People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.”
“I wish my shadow would get up and walk beside me.”
“In the mind of a woman for whom no place is home the thought of an end to all flight is unbearable.”
“God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own.”
“Mainiacs away from Maine are truly displaced persons, only half alive, only half aware of their immediate surroundings. Their inner attention is always preoccupied and pre-empted by the tiny pinpoint on the face of the globe called Down East. They try to live not in such a manner that they will eventually be welcomed into Paradise, but only so that someday they can go home to Maine.”
“Loneliness is the way by which destiny endeavors to lead man to himself.”
“The sole means of protecting your solitude is to offend everyone, beginning with those you love.”
“How come I never meet any nice girls?”