“You're gutless. It's how you were made. And that's not such a bad thing because your saving grace is that you've never lied to yourself about it. Not about that. Nothing wrong with cowardice as long as it comes with prudence. But when a coward stops remembering who he is... God help him.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 75 of 309
“When you're dead, you're dead. That's it.”
“There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.”
“They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again.”
“I remember during Oscar season, the thing I hated most was being talked to differently; people treat you differently. And then I suddenly understood why celebrities can be so weird; it's hard to act normal when no-one treats you normally.”
“Though we are all human beings, we have built walls between ourselves and our neighbors through nationalism, through race, caste, and class - which again breeds isolation, loneliness.”
“People are strange when you're a stranger.”
“Looks like my baby dont live here no more...thats alright, ive still got my guitar..I might as well go back over yonder, way back across the hills, if my baby dont love me no more....i know her...sister will”
“There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn't see.”
“I'm very shy really. I spend a lot of time in my room alone reading or writing or watching television.”
“I used to think getting old was about vanity but actually it's about losing people you love.”
“Let us prefer the lonely cottage, while blest with liberty, to gilded palaces, surrounded with the ensigns of slavery.”
“Music was like my first real toy. I was an only child for a while, and I was alone a lot of the time - and I liked it. I still like being alone.”
“I guess I became an actress because I didn't want to be myself.”
“A longing to wander tears my heart when I hear trees rustling in the wind at evening...”
“The roaring seas and many a dark range of mountains lie between us.”
“Every where I see bliss, from which I alone am irrevocably excluded.”
“I only bleed when I'm all alone”
“But what I want most of all is a normal life.”
“I stood among them, but not of them: in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.”