“We seem to have a compulsion these days to bury time capsules in order to give those people living in the next century or so some idea of what we are like.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 61 of 309
“Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.”
“The good old days are neither better nor worse than the ones we're living through right now.”
“I think the main reason my marriages failed is that I always loved too well but never wisely.”
“Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.”
“What hurts the most is being misunderstood. They tell me that's an Aquarian trait - that that's the thing we don't like.”
“Freedom so often means that one isn't needed anywhere. Here you are an individual, you have a background of your own, you would be missed. But off there in the cities there are thousands of rolling stones like me. We are all alike; we have no ties, we know nobody, we own nothing.”
“Human relationships are the tragic necessity of human life; that they can never be wholly satisfactory, that every ego is half the time greedily seeking them, and half the time pulling away from them.”
“People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.”
“I am an only child. I have one sister.”
“Hardly anybody ever writes anything nice about introverts. Extroverts rule. This is rather odd when you realise that about nineteen writers out of twenty are introverts. We are been taught to be ashamed of not being 'outgoing'. But a writer's job is ingoing.”
“Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended”
“I want my friend to miss me as long as I miss him.”
“I keep finding myself stifled by the company of others and then crippled by loneliness when I leave them. I am terrified and I don't even know of what, because I have lost everything already.”
“In the Lonely Hour is about a guy that I fell in love with last year, and he didn't love me back. I think I'm over it now, but I was in a very dark place. I kept feeling lonely in the fact that I hadn't felt love before.”
“The cypresses are always occupying my thoughts.”
“When I was fourteen, my father decided to initiate me into the ways of manhood, and took me to the local whorehouse. The woman spread her legs, and made me look between them. All I could see was something that looked like a dyin' orchid; consequently, I have never been comfortable around women or orchids.”
“This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.”
“Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”
“The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”