“Part of life is a quest to find that one essential person who will understand our story. But we choose wrongly so often. Over the ensuing years that person we thought understood us best ends up regarding us with pity, indifference, or active dislike. Those who truly care can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive our worst sins. Rarely do we find someone capable of both.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 70 of 309
“I wish I was either in your arms full of faith, or that a Thunder bolt would strike me.”
“My real self wanders elsewhere, far away, wanders on and on invisibly and has nothing to do with my life.”
“People were always saying to Margaret, 'Well, Julia sings and Betsy writes. Now what is little Margaret going to do?' Margaret would smile politely, for she was very polite, but privately she stormed to Betsy with flashing eyes, 'I'm not going to do anything. I want to just live. Can't people just live?”
“You have played, (I think) And broke the toys you were fondest of, And are a little tired now; Tired of things that break, and— Just tired. So am I.”
“It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.”
“SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it? ... it isn't only that others are there, that they fill up the space next to us. But even when they celebrate us or give advice in a friendly conversation, clever, sensitive advice: even then we can be lonely. So loneliness is not something simply connected with the presence of others or with what they do. Then what? What on earth?”
“I felt alien my whole life but I didn't feel alien because of my gender. Other people made me aware of my gender.”
“No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.”
“I’ve learned that waiting is the most difficult bit, and I want to get used to the feeling, knowing that you’re with me, even when you’re not by my side.”
“I never was attached to that great sect, Whose doctrine is that each one should select Out of the crowd a mistress or a friend, And all the rest, though fair and wise, commend, To cold oblivion.”
“To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.”
“I don't even have my own computer.”
“There is no one so lonely than a man who loves only himself.”
“You aren't going to leave me alone are you?”
“When I was fair and young, and favor graced me, Of many was I sought, their mistress for to be; But I did scorn them all, and answered them therefore, "Go, go, go seek some otherwhere! Importune me no more!”
“Why do people think being with someone is the answer to everything?”
“People think I'm so strong, but I'm very shy.”
“For me, it's always best to just push everything out and just disappear by myself alone somewhere - and it's kind of like a need of mine.”
“I live with the people I create and it has always made my essential loneliness less keen.”