“The concept of loneliness and exile and self-sufficiency continually bucks me up.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 57 of 309
“Maybe I'm sad about wanting you. I'm not too comfortable with wanting someone.”
“We movie stars all end up by ourselves. Who knows? Maybe we want to.”
“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.”
“All my life I've been lonely. I've been lonely at crowded parties. I've been lonely in the middle of kissing a girl and I've been lonely at camp with hundreds of fellows around. But now I'm not lonely any more.”
“At the moment of childbirth, every woman has the same aura of isolation, as though she were abandoned, alone.”
“At the times in my life when I was feeling the most gregarious and looking for bosom friendships, I couldn't find any takers, so that exactly when I was alone was when I felt the most like not being alone... I became a loner in my own mind... I decided I'd rather be alone.”
“I still care about people but it would be so much easier not to care. I don't want to get too close; I don't like to touch things.”
“Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and expand our sense of life: they feed the soul.”
“It's very hard, feeling that you're no more than a piece of unwanted furniture in this world.”
“You have no idea of the women I didn't marry.”
“I think while all mothers deal with feelings of guilt, working mothers are plagued by guilt on steroids!”
“I rarely get recognised. It's always a shock when someone notices me. I always think they must be confusing me with someone else.”
“Sometimes I feel like I don't belong anywhere, & it's gonna take so long for me to get to somewhere, Sometimes I feel so heavy hearted, but I can't explain cuz I'm so guarded. But that's a lonely road to travel, and a heavy load to bear. And it's a long, long way to heaven but I gotta get there Can you send an angel? Can you send me an angel...to guide me.”
“The face of "evil" is always the face of total need. A dope fiend is a man in total need of dope. Beyond a certain frequency need knows absolutely no limit or control. In the words of total need: "Wouldn't you?" Yes you would. You would lie, cheat, inform on your friends, steal, do anything to satisfy total need. Because you would be in a state of total sickness, total possession, and not in a position to act in any other way. Dope fiends are sick people who cannot act other than they do. A rabid dog cannot choose but bite.”
“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”
“I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's.”
“I think one of the most poignant things is unrequited love and loneliness.”
“People were buying milk, or filling their cars with petrol, or even posting letters. And what no one else knew was the appalling weight of the thing they were carrying inside. The superhuman effort it took sometimes to be normal, and a part of things that appeared both easy and everyday. The loneliness of that.”
“I was a total dork in high school.”