“I know this sounds strange, but as a kid, I was really shy. Painfully shy. The turning point was freshman year, when I was the biggest geek alive. No one, I mean no one, even talked to me.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 8 of 309
“We were alone. Where, I could not say, hardly imagine. All was black, and such a dense black that, after some minutes, my eyes had not been able to discern even the faintest glimmer.”
“In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. ... The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.”
“You need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. A village means that you are not alone, knowing that in the people, the trees, the earth, there is something that belongs to you, waiting for you when you are not there.”
“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
“Now even if I die, no one will be so grieved as to do himself bodily harm.”
“I didn't figure out the makeup or cute hair or clothes until oh, maybe my junior year of high school.”
“But I don't think of you. - Howard Roark”
“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.”
“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
“The Taj Mahal rises above the banks of the river like a solitary tear suspended on the cheek of time.”
“the worst part about being lied to is knowing you werent worth the truth”
“Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either.”
“Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.”
“I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.”
“If my eyes could show my soul,everyone would cry when they saw me smile.”
“But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are going the way to yourself! And your way goes past yourself, and past your seven devils! You will be a heretic to yourself and witch and soothsayer and fool and doubter and unholy one and villain. You must be ready to burn yourself in your own flame: how could you become new, if you had not first become ashes?”
“To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
“I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself.”