“It's weird to feel like you miss someone you're not even sure you know.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 92 of 309
“The Jew is at once alienated and indestructible; he is in exile from his own country and in exile even from himself, yet he survives the annihilating fury of history.”
“I can tell how lonely I am by how easily I'm fooled by a mannequin in a store.”
“There is less harm to be suffered in being mad among madmen than in being sane all by oneself.”
“Isolation and loneliness create the conditions for rapid aging. The key is to stay connected and open to new relationships throughout your life.”
“Let him who cannot be alone beware of community. Let him who is not in community beware of being alone.”
“The seat received him in a loose and distant kind of way, like an aunt who disapproves of the last fifteen years of your life and will therefore furnish you with a basic sherry, but refuses to catch your eye.”
“Our family life was certainly not intellectual.”
“Baby being part of this life I feel like I'm bound to end up with somebody that's been with everybody.”
“I am something of a recluse by nature. I am that cordless screwdriver that has to charge for twenty hours to earn ten minutes use. I need that much downtime.”
“The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others.”
“I was headed for an entire life spent alone, pitying myself for not being more, ignoring all those people who actually ask me to be more, because they see it in me.”
“Sometimes when I'm brushing my teeth, I'll look at the mirror and I swear my reflection seems kind of disappointed. I realized a couple of years ago that not only am I not super-skilled at anything, I'm not even particularly good at being myself.”
“I could see the road ahead of me. I was poor and I was going to stay poor. But I didn't particularly want money. I didn't know what I wanted. Yes, I did. I wanted someplace to hide out, someplace where one didn't have to do anything. The thought of being something didn't only appall me, it sickened me . . . To do things, to be part of family picnics, Christmas, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Mother's Day . . . was a man born just to endure those things and then die? I would rather be a dishwasher, return alone to a tiny room and drink myself to sleep.”
“The man who suffers from a sense of sin is suffering from a particular kind of self-love. In all this vast universe the thing that appears to him of most importance is that he himself should be virtuous. It is a grave defect in certain forms of traditional religion that they have encouraged this particular kind of self-absorption.”
“They self-inflict punishment on their own broken lives, put their faith in their possessions, in their jobs, or their wives.”
“I can't stand to see myself on television.”
“I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn I courted her proudly but now she is gone Gone as the season she's taken”
“Oh Mockingbird have you ever heard words that I’ve never heard”
“When I was young, I expected from people more than they could give: neverending friendship and constant excitement. Now I expect less than they can actually can give: to stay close silently. And their feelings, friendship, noble deeds always seem like a miracle to me: a true grace.”