“1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them.”
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Lonely Quotes — page 56 of 309
“Titian, Rembrandt and Goya were the great painters. I am only a public clown.”
“my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping but I shall go on living.”
“Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.”
“Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.”
“I just want to go through Central Park and watch folks passing by. Spend the whole day watching people. I miss that.”
“I never really got on that well with Yoko anyway. Strangely enough, I only started to get to know her after John's death.”
“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely, Liz. Learn your way around loneliness. Make a map of it. Sit with it, for once in your life. Welcome to the human experience. But never again use another person's body or emotions as a scratching post for your own unfulfilled yearnings.”
“I love my friends and family, but I also love it when they can't find me and I can spend all day reading or walking all alone, in silence, eight thousand miles away from everyone. All alone and unreachable in a foreign country is one my most favorite possible things to be.”
“My best Acquaintances are those With Whom I spoke no Word”
“There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.”
“The sick individual finds himself at home with all other similarly sick individuals. The whole culture is geared to this kind of pathology. The result is that the average individual does not experience the separateness and isolation the fully schizophrenic person feels. He feels at ease among those who suffer from the same deformation; in fact, it is the fully sane person who feels isolated in the insane society - and he may suffer so much from the incapacity to communicate that it is he who may become psychotic.”
“In Los Angeles, I feel like the ugly duckling, like I'm from Venus or something.”
“I always was very interested in intellect and the massive world of knowledge out there, but in terms of being a kid who wanted to be treated as an equal, school is not the place.”
“She was not accustomed to taste the joys of solitude except in company.”
“In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.”
“He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.”
“I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.”
“I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself.”
“Charlie Brown is the one person I identify with. C.B. is such a loser. He wasn't even the star of his own Halloween special.”