“There's a certain kind of neurological makeup that goes along with being a writer, and having been in the room with a few other writers at the same time, it's rather wearing to be around. And it does - there is a kind of hypervigilance about it. Unfortunately it's got disadvantages. If you turn that hypervigilance on yourself and, for instance, whether or not you have a pimple on the end of your nose, it can get really depressing.”
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Lonely Quotes — page 77 of 309
“You can' t help being a musician because you've grown up with music, yet being one means being compared to your dad and being slated for it. But I really don't have the ambitions of most people going into the industry.”
“I have three girls, and I say the same thing to them. I'm not involved in their careers because I've learned that it's important for them to stand on their own two feet. They'll feel better and prouder of themselves if they do.”
“Still findin' myself, let alone a soulmate, I'm just sayin'”
“She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone”
“Always gone but never hard to find.. And since you can't escape me, do I ever cross your mind?”
“I can tell that you been crying all night, drinking all summer, praying for your happiness, hope that you recover”
“I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me.”
“For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.”
“I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.”
“Apart from painting and gardening, I'm not good at anything.”
“places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?”
“A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he'll give him sixpence. But the second time it'll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he'll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.”
“If I don't have friends, then I ain't nothing.”
“The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.”
“People call you this or that. But I can't respond because then it seems like I'm defensive, you know, what does it matter, really?”
“I didn't know the names of the flowers - now my garden is gone.”
“I was stirred only like a leaf in the wind, that is all. . .”
“I can only have dinner with my girlfriends once a month instead of once a week.”
“People who grow bored in their own company seem to me in danger.”