“We all, sometimes, leave each other there under the skies, and we never understand why.”
Lonely feeling
Lonely Quotes — page 95 of 309
“There, in the center of that silence was not eternity but the death of time and a loneliness so profound the word itself had no meaning. For loneliness assumed the absence of other people, and the solitude she found in that desperate terrain had never admitted the possibility of other people. She wept then. Tears for the deaths of the littlest things: the castaway shoes of children; broken stems of marsh grass battered and drowned by the sea; prom photographs of dead women she never knew; wedding rings in pawnshop windows; the tiny bodies of Cornish hens in a nest of rice.”
“Oh, I got a beautiful 1959 Cadillac Coupe DeVille four-door. No one will ride in it with me.”
“Once you are married, there is nothing left for you, not even suicide.”
“Reading is something I've really missed, not being able to enter people's worlds.”
“Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.”
“I discovered that I am tired of being a person. Not just tired of being the person I was, but any person at all”
“Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship but the loneliness of the soul in its appalling self-consciousness is horrible and overpowering.”
“If you have no brothers and sisters it defines you for life; even when you're thirty you refer to yourself as an only child.”
“You don't know how to talk to people you don't like. Don't love, really. You can't live in the world with such strong likes and dislikes.”
“I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.”
“My parents are muggles, mate. They don't know nothing about no deaths at Hogwarts, because I'm not stupid enough to tell them.”
“The true story is that black people need to tell their history. Very few films are made by black people about slavery. That itself is a crime because slavery is a very important historical event that has held our people hostage. Forget white people's role in it. In the end what's important is black people remain and live with the scars and psychological issues.”
“More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.”
“She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.”
“I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.”
“Oh, my bad ... I'm sorry for bothering you. I forgot I only exist when you need me for something.”
“Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to think of me as anything but a form they were trying to capture with their pencils and charcoal. I was defiant. Hell-bent on surviving. On making it. But it was hard and it was lonely, and I had to dare myself every day to keep going.”
“When I think about popular culture, I can't help but think that we're living in the age of loneliness. There's this illusion that we all have instant access to each other, but we actually have no real connection.”
“I feel like [terrorism] acts are un-Islamic. So to see that happen and somebody do that in the name of God, it just - and the religion that you practice, it just - it hurts your heart so deeply because it's such a misrepresentation of the faith.”