“I'm tired of everybody. Please forgive me.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 65 of 309
“I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation.”
“I've always felt like I'm from another planet.”
“If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy.”
“She wondered if, when human souls try to get too near each other, they do not inevitably become mere blurs to each other's vision.”
“Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism in private. And there's also a strange loneliness, and a desire to have some kind of conversation with people, but not a real great ability to do it in person.”
“O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.”
“When the lights don't glow the same way that they used to and I finally get a moment to myself, I will realize you were everything I'm missing and you'll tell me you're in love with someone else.”
“Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon. She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow. Hold my hand, he said, and then: why are your putting the sheet over my face?”
“The walls of isolation are not as solid as your suffering makes them seem.”
“Real loneliness is not necessarily limited to when you are alone.”
“Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die.”
“I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers.”
“My parents never understood me; they were Japanese.”
“One's better off alone, and yet there are so many things that are impossible to fathom on one's own. In fact it's a terrible business and the task is a hard one.”
“I do not want a friend who smiles when I smile, who weeps when I weep; for my shadow in the pool can do better than that.”
“Love is a horse with a broken leg trying to stand while 45,000 people watch.”
“Distance does not decide who is your brother and who is not. The church is going to have to become the conscience of the free market if it's to have any meaning in this world - and stop being its apologist.”
“A loveless world is a dead world.”
“Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.”