“And forever goodbye! Forever! Oh, Sir, can you imagine how dreadful this cruel word sounds when one loves?”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 82 of 309
“Sadder than the beggar is the man who eats alone in public.”
“Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears.”
“Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come.”
“I'd been living on the streets of New York, and I was sleeping at my friends' houses, sometimes in the subway.”
“I've been dating since I was fifteen. I'm exhausted. Where is he?”
“I'd rather hang out with the losers that would sit and smoke a cigarette than the ones who wanted to throw a baseball.”
“Billy covered his head with his blanket. He always covered his head when his mother came to see him in the mental ward - always got much sicker until she went away. It wasn’t that she was ugly, or had bad breath or a bad personality. She was a perfectly nice, standard-issue, brown-haired, white woman with a high school education. She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone through so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn’t really like life at all.”
“But when you're a celebrity, you discover that you're no longer the pursuer, but the one being pursued. That's one of the disappointments I have had since becoming a single man.”
“Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.”
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“I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.”
“When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.”
“And all the time she felt the reflection of his hopelessness in her. She couldn't quite, quite love in hoplessness. And he, being hopeless, couldn't ever love at all.”
“When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.”
“Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.”
“No one can survive childhood without being wounded. Everyone remembers at least one time when their parents rejected them, pushed them away, even though they may have still been in the womb, blind, and unable to speak. That's why, as adults, we all look for someone to become our parents again, and for someone to look after us in times of need. And we search for a person to live with who can provide the companionship we so desperately want.”
“In the years afterward, I fled whenever somebody began to understand me. That has subsided. But one thing remained: I don't want anybody to understand me completely. I want to go through life unknown. The blindness of others is my safety and my freedom.”
“Loneliness is the worst of all tortures, the worst of all sufferings.”
“Because of that she had never had enough energy to be herself, a person who, like everyone else in the world, needed other people in order to be happy. But other people were so difficult. They reacted in unpredictable ways, they surrounded themselves with defensive walls, they behaved just as she did, pretending they didn't care about anything. When someone more open to life appeared, they either rejected them outright or made them suffer, consigning them to being inferior, ingenuous.”