“Old women even forget how to love their sons. The heart gets worn out, Monsieur.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 93 of 309
“In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land.”
“I was an uncommonly unattractive young man.”
“Don't say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe. I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have to share my kingdom with you.”
“A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. He needs to constantly prove to himself and the others that he’s worth something. And if I know for sure that I’m a genius? Why write then? What the hell for?”
“It must be hard to be a model, because you'd want to be like the photograph of you, and you can't ever look that way.”
“I'm a drifter and an outsider. There's not one single environment I can totally belong to.”
“She left me, offended at my want of sympathy, and thinking, no doubt, that I envied her. I did not - at least, I firmly believed I did not.”
“At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house.”
“I've never been in love. I've dreamt of it day and night, but my heart is like a fine piano no one can play because the key is lost.”
“You don't understand, you fool' says Yegor, looking dreamily up at the sky. 'You've never understood what kind of person I am, nor will you in a million years... You just think I'm a mad person who has thrown his life away... Once the free spirit has taken hold of a man, there's no way of getting it out of him.”
“People ask me if I miss the States. I miss African Americans. But not the U.S. government or all the things they put me through. I miss African American culture, our speech, dance and cooking.”
“I am not beautiful. My mother once called me an ugly duckling. But,listed separately, I have a few good features.”
“I'm a very positive person, but this whole concept of having to always be nice, always smiling, always happy, that's not real. It was like I was wearing a mask. I was becoming this perfectly chiselled sculpture, and that was bad. That took a long time to understand.”
“In the company of friends, writers can discuss their books, economists the state of the economy, lawyers their latest cases, and businessmen their latest acquisitions, but mathematicians cannot discuss their mathematics at all. And the more profound their work, the less understandable it is.”
“And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds and binding with briars my joys and desires. (from 'The Garden of Love')”
“Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.”
“That old feeling is still in my leaking heart.”
“Abysmal vermin that I am, I couldn't of course tell her that it was her incredible mother that I wanted to see again… I knew only as I drove through the cold, night autumn air that somewhere Freud, Sophocles and Eugene O’Neill were laughing.”
“I was a smart kid and I was not understood by my parents.”