“The Britons are quite separated from all the world.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 58 of 309
“I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.”
“. . . clumsiness is often mated with a love of solitude.”
“You can't go home again”
“Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.”
“The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.”
“I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society.”
“Did you ever feel that you were missing someone you had never met?”
“It had been only through books-at best, no more than vicarious cultural transfusions-that I had managaed to keep myself alive in a negatively vital way. Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.”
“Why one man rather than another? It was odd. You find yourself involved with a fellow for life just because he was the one that you met when you were nineteen.”
“No one ever does live happily ever after, but we leave the children to find that out for themselves.”
“Two things I do value a lot, intimacy and the capacity for joy, didn't seem to be on anyone else s list. I felt like the stranger in a strange land, and decided I'd better not marry the natives.”
“You people with hearts,' he said once, 'have something to guide you, and need never do wrong; but I have no heart, and so I must be very careful.”
“Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.”
“memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for”
“Friendship is but a name. I love no one.”
“When I was a child, I never played with other children. I hated them.”
“Without madness what is man But a wholesome beast, Postponed corpse that begets?”
“I thought I was your destination. Looks like I was just another stop on the line.”
“For women who do not love us, as for the "disappeared", knowing that we no longer have any hope does not prevent us form continuing to wait. We live on our guard, on watch; women whose son has gone asea on a dangerous exploration imagine at any minute, although it has long been certain that he has perished, that he will enter, miraculously saved, and healthy.”