“Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 72 of 309
“Ever man is eternally alone. But when you get mixed up with a fairly decent crowd, you forget that appalling fact for long enough to give your brain time to recover from the acute symptoms of its disease - that of thinking.”
“Day after day I look in the mirror and I still see something”
“To tell the truth days are all the same size and words aren't much company.”
“I travel 250 days a year. There are chef friends who I only see every couple of years. By conventional standards I'm a bad friend. I'm not there to remember your birthday or to offer you words of support through Twitter. I'm not up on what you're doing in New York because I'm not in New York. I'm not what people call in parenting circles "present."”
“I kept thinking how marvellous it would be if I could somehow tear my heart, which felt so heavy, out of my chest.”
“Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.”
“Nothing made sense to me anymore. I knew I was young, I knew I was small. But I was worried that I might already be ruined.”
“In the temple of his spirit, each man is alone.”
“I project myself out through the glasses and across the street, a ghost in the morning sunlight, torn with disembodied lust.”
“I haven't got a heart: only the former site of one, with a monument there to say that it has been removed and the area it occupied turned into a public garden, in pursuance of the slum-clearance scheme.”
“[A]t bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.”
“I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.”
“As you experience love and relationships, you start to realize that love tends to end in a very painful goodbye.”
“Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.”
“These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world.”
“Every man supposes himself not to be fully understood or appreciated.”
“Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.”
“Her life-that was the only chance she had-the short season between two silences.”
“Other people have faces; Susan and Jinny have faces; they are here. Their world is the real world. The things they lift are heavy. They say Yes, they say No; whereas I shift and change and am seen through in a second. If they meet a housemaid she looks at them without laughing. But she laughs at me. They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and do what other people do when they have done it.”