“We have fewer friends than we imagine, but more than we know.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 43 of 309
“I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams.”
“In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road.”
“Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.”
“The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.”
“Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.”
“I'm a very introverted guy, so I don't need to be around people for as long as someone who's very extroverted to get that sort of social fix per se.”
“Southerners are the more lonely and spiritually estranged, I think, because we have lived so long in an artificial social system that we insisted was natural and right and just - when all along we knew it wasn't.”
“I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets”
“You don't become an 'artist' unless you've got something missing somewhere. Blaise Pascal called it a God-shaped hole. Everyone's got one but some are blacker and wider than others. It's a feeling of being abandoned,cut adrift in space and time-sometimes following the loss of a loved one. You can never completely fill that hole-you can try with songs,family,faith and by living a full life...but when things are silent, you can still hear the hissing of what's missing.”
“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one's own.”
“Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache: do be my enemy for friendship's sake.”
“Here were decent godless people; Their only monument the asphalt road And a thousand lost golf balls.”
“I am one of the most irresponsible beings that ever lived. Irresponsibility is part of my invisibility; any way you face it, it is a denial. But to whom can I be responsible, and why should I be, when you refuse to see me?”
“I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.”
“But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.”
“I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.”
“Dating is so insecure. My last relationship, I was always there for her and she dumped me. I told her about it. I said, "Remember when your grandma died? I was there. Remember when you flunked out of school? I was there. Remember when you lost your job? I was there!" She said, "I know”
“Other than the voices in my head, I think I’m pretty normal.”
“I just don't want to die alone, that's all. That's not too much to ask for, is it It would be nice to have someone care about me, for who I am, not about my wallet.”