“Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 51 of 309
“Solitude is fine, but you need someone to tell you that solitude is fine.”
“He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.”
“In solitude, where we are least alone.”
“I knew a Buddhist once, and I've hated myself ever since.”
“When you are young and without success, you have only a few friends. Then, later on, when you are rich and famous, you still have a few... if you are lucky.”
“Today, as you know, I am famous and very rich. But when I am alone with myself, I haven't the 'courage' to consider myself an artist, in the great and ancient sense of that word... I am only a public entertainer, who understands his age.”
“We read to know we are not alone.”
“If you cannot be at ease with yourself when alone, you will seek a relationship to cover up your unease. You can be sure that the unease will then reappear in some other form within the relationship, and you will probably hold your partner responsible for it.”
“So even if the hot loneliness is there, and for 1.6 seconds we sit with that restlessness when yesterday we couldn't sit for even one, that's the journey of the warrior. (68)”
“A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds; his auditors are as men entranced by the melody of an unseen musician, who feel that they are moved and softened, yet know not whence or why.”
“And I somehow always felt less lonely when I was completely alone.”
“I would like more sisters, that the taking out of one, might not leave such stillness.”
“I do not know the man so bold He dare in lonely Place That awful stranger Consciousness Deliberately face-.”
“Man does not only sell commodities, he sells himself and feels himself to be a commodity.”
“That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane.”
“He opened the jar of pickles when no one else could. He was the only one in the house who wasn't afraid to go into the basement by himself. He cut himself shaving, but no one kissed it or got excited about it. It was understood when it rained, he got the car and brought it around to the door. When anyone was sick, he went out to get the prescription filled. He took lots of pictures... but he was never in them.”
“The only decent bone in her body was mine.”
“There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it.”
“I keep coming back to you in my head, but you couldn't know that, and I have no carbons.”