“A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 73 of 309
“My old man is a man of few words.”
“She learned the intricacy of loneliness: the horror of color, the roar of soundlessness and the menace of familiar objects lying still.”
“In Montana, a policeman will pull you over because he is lonely.”
“I was the new boy. It was like joining a new class at school where everybody knows everybody else but me.”
“I give the fight up: let there be an end, a privacy, an obscure nook for me. I want to be forgotten even by God.”
“Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so.”
“People think I'm strong, but actually I wanted to crawl away. I thought, I'm going to live in the country with my horse and I'll get a nine-to-five; I don't need this.”
“I still frequent my parents' house. I go there to escape, back to the bedroom that I grew up in. Just to sit there and feel small.”
“I think kids growing up, if they were picked on and feeling inferior at 12, they're going to feel that way at 72. You just deal with it better. I'm serious.”
“He felt so lost, he said later, that the familiar studio felt like a haunted valley deep in the mountains, with the smell of rotting leaves, the spray of a waterfall, the sour fumes of fruit stashed away by a monkey; even the dim glow of the master's oil lamp on its tripod looked to him like misty moonlight in the hills.”
“I believed I was a salamander, and it seems I am nothing but an impediment.”
“It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem. Can blue solve the problem, or can it at least keep me company within it?-No, not exactly. It cannot love me that way; it has no arms. But sometimes I do feel its presence to be a sort of wink-Here you are again, it says, and so am I.”
“She talks with a broken heart - Her voice lutes brokenly like a heart lost, musically too, like in a lost grove, it's almost too much to bear sometimes like some fantastic futuristic Jerry Southern singer in a nightclub who steps up to the mike in the spotlight in Las Vegas but doesn't even have to sing, just talk, to make men sigh and women wonder I guess.”
“...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.”
“You will be melancholy, if you are solitary.”
“And there I sat, long long ago, waiting for the world to know me.”
“I have grown up alone. I've taken care of myself. I worked, earned money and was independent at 18.”
“To be loved is very demoralizing”
“He who loves 50 people has 50 woes; he who loves no one has no woes.”