“Many people are living in an emotional jail without realizing it.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 35 of 309
“I remember crying all the time. My major thing growing up was I couldn't fit in. Because I was from everywhere, I didn't have no buddies that I grew up with...Every time I had to go to a new apartment, I had to reinvent myself, myself. People think just because you born in the ghetto you gonna fit in. A little twist in your life and you don't fit in no matter what. If they push you out of the hood and the White people's world, that's criminal...Hell, I felt like my could be destroyed at any moment.”
“I have only one confidant, and that is the silence of night.”
“If you ever feel lonely and feel that no one loves you and cares for you - remember me.”
“I'm sick of just liking people. I wish to God I could meet somebody I could respect.”
“Is it not true that no two human beings understand anything whatsoever about each other, that those who consider themselves bosom friends may be utterly mistaken about their fellow and, failing to realize this sad truth throughout a lifetime, weep when they read in the newspapers about his death?”
“The cigarettes you light one after another won’t help you forget her.”
“When I hear a grown man or woman say, "Once I had faith in men, now I have not," I am inclined to ask, "Who are you whom the world has disappointed? Have not you rather disappointed the world?"”
“Be good and you will be lonely.”
“Everyone calls himself a friend, but only a fool relies on it; nothing is commoner than the name, nothing rarer than the thing.”
“[Lost of the absolute] is in this sense that ''I no longer know what to do with my life" must be understood. Critics have been mistaken about the meaning of this phrase, seeing in it a cry of despair as in Simone de Beauvoir's "I have been cheated." When she uses this word it is to indicate that she claims from life an absolute which she cannot find there.”
“Someone always needs rescuing, yet there's only one person who ever seems to understand you. It's a lot like being Lassie.”
“But how can one be warm alone?”
“In life, there are those relationships where you really love someone, but they're just not right for you and there's a little bittersweet feel to it.”
“We shared. Parents. Home. Pets. Celebrations. Catastrophes. Secrets. And the threads of our experience became so interwoven that we are linked. I can never be utterly lonely, knowing you share the planet.”
“It wasn't only that you didn't see him anymore, meet him anymore. You saw his absence and encountered it as something tangible. His not being there was like the sharply outlined emptiness of a photo with a figure cut out precisely with scissors and now the missing figure is more important, more dominant than all others.”
“After all, what is happiness? Love, they tell me. But love doesn't bring and never has brought happiness. On the contrary, it's a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it's sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we're doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”
“If you cry when you're in love, it sure ain't no disgrace.”
“No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.”
“The further you go in writing the more alone you are.”