“I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived. I believe that all the best faculties of a mature human being exist in the child. . . that one of the most deeply human, and humane, of these faculties is the power of imagination.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 53 of 309
“I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.”
“My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo”
“If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.”
“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”
“I am such a good man, at bottom, such a good man, how is it that nobody ever noticed it?”
“I cannot go to the houses of my nearest relatives, because I do not wish to be alone. Society exists by chemical affinity, and not otherwise.”
“I wish they would take me as I am.”
“I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.”
“To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!”
“Each had his own business to think of. Each had his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart; and his friends could only read the title.”
“How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?”
“At every point I am besieged by people who would like me to conform to some social norm of whatever sort of social group they expect me to be a part of. I never have any identification with these social groups.”
“If loneliness is the disease, the story is the cure.”
“Friends take up time, and I didn't have time.”
“If you feel alienated from people around you, it's because no one tries to understand you.”
“Don't wish. Don't Start. Wishing only wounds the heart.”
“I missed him, of course, but sometimes close friendships have a tidal beat that pulls you towards different shores though the ocean that connects you remains.”
“I have no conscience at all -- least of all an artistic conscience. All I have is nerves.”
“Self-discovery is above all the realization that we are alone.”