“Nothing can fill the gap when we are away from those we love, and it would be wrong to try to find anything.....It is nonsense to say that God fills the gap; he does not fill it, but keeps it empty so that our communion with another may be kept alive, even at the cost of pain.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 84 of 309
“The sun's gone dim, and the moon's gone black. For I loved him, and he didn't love back.”
“I like to walk in rain, so that nobody can see my tears.”
“I still don't know where I am going to sleep tomorrow.”
“I used to feel so shy speaking to girls. It was even worse when they were around their crew because they would diss me.”
“Mother of three; divorcee; American. Twenty years experience as an actress in motion pictures. Mobile still and more affable than rumour would have it. Wants steady employment in Hollywood. (Has had Broadway). References upon request.”
“She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.”
“It's very tiring having other people tell you how much they dig you if you yourself don't dig you.”
“People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.”
“I really don't like to hurt myself. I have a good understanding with all the women who have been in my life, whether I see them occasionally or not.”
“i been meek, and hard like an oak, i seen pretty people disappear like smoke. friends will arrive, friends will disappear. if you want me, honey baby, i'll be here.”
“Just sitting around waiting for my life to begin, while it was all just slipping away.”
“There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value.”
“As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here.”
“What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.”
“In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.”
“In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger - a stranger... A stranger, and lonely...”
“Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.”
“I don't understand these people anymore, that travel the commuter-trains to their dormitory towns. These people that call themselves human, but, by a pressure they do not feel, are forced to do their work like ants. With what do they fill their time when they are free of work on their silly little Sundays? I am very fortunate in my profession. I feel like a farmer, with the airstrips as my fields. Those that have once tasted this kind of fare will not forget it ever. Not so, my friends?”
“And I've been hurt hurt bad. I might be just twenty-six, but I'm an old woman in disguise twenty-six goin'on sixty-five.”