“Other people are occupied, I alone am unwilling, like the outcast.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 63 of 309
“I have often felt that I would find it more complicated, troublesome and unpleasant to ascertain the feelings by which a woman lives than to plumb the innermost thoughts of an earthworm.”
“If you go anywhere, even paradise, you will miss your home.”
“My soul's the present shadow of a presence gone.”
“I'm something that I used to be. I'm never where I feel I am, and if I seek myself, I don't know who's seeking me. My boredom with everything has numbed me. I feel banished from my soul.”
“I was the green monkey, the pariah. And I had no friends. Not just a few friends, or one good friend, or grudging acceptance by other misfits and outcasts. I was alone. All stinking alone, without even an imaginary playmate.”
“The memories seem like snapshots from someone else’s life.”
“The trouble with me is that I'm an outsider. And that's a very hard thing to be in American life.”
“Isn't life strange? There are people who have so many leftover clothes they can't stuff them all in their wardrobe. And then there are people like me, whose socks never match.”
“I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.”
“That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.”
“There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room.”
“Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand.”
“I spent many years not knowing where my dad was... Not knowing if my dad was alive, even. He turned up when I was 16 out of the blue.”
“People don't talk to each other. You're alone with your television set or internet. But you can't have a functioning democracy without what sociologists call "secondary organizations," places where people can get together, plan, talk and develop ideas. You don't do it alone.”
“A fan club is a group of people who tell an actor hes not alone in the way he feels about himself.”
“To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.”
“The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.”
“I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we’re both unhappy, and we both suffer.”
“If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison.”