“Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.”
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Lonely Quotes — page 36 of 309
“It's funny how insomnia has a way of hauling faded memories up from the cellar of the mind, unearthing buried bits of nostalgia from deep within and spreading the broken, jagged pieces out in front of you like a display of junk at a garage sale. It makes you feel cheap and guilty when you didn't do a thing in the world to kindle the dull burn in your veins or the sting in your eyes. Some nights the painful past unexpectedly pushes up through the floorboards like an ugly nightmarish weed, and by doing so, cultivates and nurtures an entirely new species of headache.”
“The Heart is a Lonely Hunter.”
“I've asked about you and they told me things but my mind didn't change and I still feel the same.”
“The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men.”
“I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations.”
“I have to be alone very often. I'd be quite happy if I spent from Saturday night until Monday morning alone in my apartment. That's how I refuel.”
“If after having been exposed to someone's presence you feel as if you've lost a quart of plasma, avoid that presence. You need it like you need pernicious anemia.”
“A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday, does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying to do. We are trying to do a futile thing if we do not know where we came from or what we have been about.”
“I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.”
“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”
“Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.”
“I'm a minor player in my own life story.”
“..he understood far more deeply than anyone else the loneliness that lurked beneath his jaunty mask.”
“I'll miss you most of all scarecrow.”
“When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any”
“I don't watch my own films very often. I become so jittery and ready to cry... and miserable. I think it's awful.”
“In prosperity you may count on many friends; if the sky becomes overcast you will be alone.”
“The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did - which was to hide.”
“We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.”