“So I walked back to my room and collapsed on the bottom bunk, thinking that if people were rain, I was drizzle and she was a hurricane.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 6 of 309
“For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces.”
“If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely.”
“I don’t know what they are called, the spaces between seconds– but I think of you always in those intervals.”
“When you read magazines and you see everybody having fun, you think, ‘okay, that’s where I want to be.’ But once you get in it and you achieve the success that you want, it seems like that’s where the player hating starts. You know that’s where everybody’s like, ‘Well it’s not all that”
“You can have everything in the world and still be the loneliest man. And that is the most bitter type of loneliness, success has brought me world idolisation and millions of pounds. But it's prevented me from having the one thing we all need: A loving, ongoing relationship.”
“Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature.”
“Do you hate people? I don't hate them...I just feel better when they're not around.”
“Having to talk destroys the symphony of silence.”
“I am not handsome or sexy. Of course, it's not like I am hopeless.”
“Leave my loneliness unbroken”
“Life is pain, highness. Anyone who tells you differently is selling something.”
“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”
“The lesser the friends, the lesser the chances of betrayal.”
“Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.”
“When I first met you, I felt a kind of contradiction in you. You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.”
“I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.”
“You may forget with whom you laughed, but you will never forget with whom you wept.”
“We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us.”
“A solitary, unused to speaking of what he sees and feels, has mental experiences which are at once more intense and less articulate than those of a gregarious man.”