“You're an interesting species, an interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so cut off, so alone, only you're not. See, in all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 48 of 309
“I think we look for the differences in people because it makes us less lonely.”
“I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary.”
“I´m a stranger in a strange land.”
“I'm scared that every girl I care for will find a better man and end up happier in the longrun”
“It takes a million compliments to build you up and one insult to send it all crashing down.”
“Face to face, just you and me, with no rules. Just like you, I get lonely too.”
“I often carry things to read so that I will not have to look at the people.”
“your letters got sadder. your lovers betrayed you. kid, I wrote back, all lovers betray. it didn't help. you said you had a crying bench and it was by a bridge and the bridge was over the river and you sat on the crying bench every night and wept for the lovers who had hurt and forgotten you.”
“The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.”
“Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.”
“I can only think seriously of trying to live up to an ideal, to improve myself, if I am split in two pieces. There must be a good “I” who is going to improve the bad “me.” “I,” who has the best intentions, will go to work on wayward “me,” and the tussle between the two will very much stress the difference between them. Consequently “I” will feel more separate than ever, and so merely increase the lonely and cut-off feelings which make “me” behave so badly.”
“Martyrs, my friend, have to choose between being forgotten, mocked or used. As for being understood - never.”
“... unhappiness is like marriage. We believe we chose it, but then it is choosing us. That is how it is, we can do nothing about it.”
“Everyone prefers some foods over others, but some adults take this tendency to an extreme. These people tend to prefer the kinds of bland food they may have enjoyed as children - such as plain or buttered pasta, macaroni and cheese, cheese pizza, French fries and grilled cheese sandwiches - and to restrict their eating to just a few dishes.”
“For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime.”
“I used to feel so alone in the city. All those gazillions of people and then me, on the outside. Because how do you meet a new person? I was very stunned by this for many years. And then I realized, you just say, "Hi." They may ignore you. Or you may marry them. And that possibility is worth that one word.”
“You can victimize yourself by wallowing around in your own past.”
“The Sick Rose O Rose, thou art sick. The invisible worm That flies in the night In the howling storm Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.”
“She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her.”