“Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 9 of 309
“I wish I could throw off the thoughts which poison my happiness, but I take a kind of pleasure in indulging them.”
“Perhaps only people who are capable of real togetherness have that look of being alone in the universe. The others have a certain stickiness, they stick to the mass.”
“I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep me satisfied.”
“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an incurable illness.”
“Victims. Victims of a transitional period of morality. That is what we both certainly are.”
“It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far.”
“You can love someone so much...But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”
“Soul ties. The thing that can make you hear an old-school slow jam and think of somebody you haven’t seen in years. Soul ties. The thing that makes old people who’ve been together for years finish each other’s sentences. Don’t you wish mama had told you when you were young that, when you lie with someone, you lie not just with her body but also with her soul? And whatever condition the other person’s soul is in, you are guaranteed to take a piece with you—whether you want to or not. Instead of being amazed at her booty, you should have focused on her mind.”
“The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger to the arms of a neon light, the heart is a lonely hunter when there's no sign of love in sight!”
“I’m lost. And it’s my own fault. It’s about time I figured out that I can’t ask people to keep me found.”
“I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it is as though I have been surrounded by mirrors of hard, distorting glass. When they approach me they see only my surroundings, themselves or figments of their imagination, indeed, everything and anything except me.”
“Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?”
“I am alone in the midst of these happy, reasonable voices. All these creatures spend their time explaining, realizing happily that they agree with each other. In Heaven's name, why is it so important to think the same things all together.”
“Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination.”
“Many people suffer from the fear of finding oneself alone, and so they don't find themselves at all.”
“I am never lonely when I am reading the Bible. Nothing dissolves loneliness like a session with God's Word.”
“All companionship can consist in only the strengthening of neighboring solitudes, giving oneself is by nature harmful to companionship: for when a person abandons himself, he is no longer anything, and when two people both give themselves up in order to become closer to each other, there is no longer any ground beneath them and their being together is a continual falling – I have learned over and over again, there is scarcely anything more difficult than to love one another.”
“The irony of loneliness is that everybody shares it from time to time.”
“I came to terms with not fitting in a long time ago. I never really fitted in. I don't want to fit in. And now people are buying into that.”