Quotes About Loneliness

He thought: that's certainly how it starts. One day a person puts his legs up on a bench, then night comes and he falls asleep. That's how it happens that one fine day a person joins the tramps and turns into one of them.

He considered music a liberating force: it liberated him from loneliness, introversion, the dust of the library; it opened the door of his body and allowed his soul to step out into the world and make friends.

Solo como un cuadro de Van Gogh bajo la mirada idiota de los turistas. Solo como la Luna que nadie ve

That conversation with the taxi driver suddenly made clear to me the essence of the writer's occupation. We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them.

Clearly they had different concerns, but she understood that in her boyfriend's mouth the word "loneliness" took on a more abstract, a grander meaning: going though life without drawing anyone's interest; talking without being heard; suffering without stirring compassion; thus, living as she has in fact lived ever since then.

Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

We write books because our children aren't interested in us. We address ourselves to an anonymous world because our wives plug their ears when we speak to them.

My God, it had been so long since anyone had asked her about anything! It seemed like an eternity! Only her husband had kept asking her questions, because love is a continual interrogation.

Hän tuntee olevansa niin yksin rakastaessaan koiraa. Surullinen hymy huulillaan hän tuumii että hänen on salattava Kareninia kohtaan tuntemansa rakkaus visummin kuin hänen olisi salattava uskottomuutensa. Ihmiset paheksuvat koiraa kohtaan tunnettua rakkautta.

sem os sentimentos, a sexualidade é como um deserto em que se morre de tristeza

we are longtime outcasts, flying through the emptiness of time in a straight line.

Pišemo knjige zato što se naša deca ne zanimaju za nas. Obra?amo se anonimnom svetu zato što naša žena zatvara uši kad joj se obra?amo.

A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.

Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally.

I have known no experience more distressing than the discovery that Negroes didn't love me. Unutterable loneliness claimed me. I felt without roots, like a man without a country.

I was built with a love of the night and the unquiet coffin.

Marriage. Don't be pressured into it. Is the fear of loneliness really greater than the fear of bondage?

love all the people you can. The sufferings from love are not to be compared to the sorrows of loneliness.

Paper Moon didn't bring me love.

We get divorce, we get conned, someone we love dies, or we can't find anybody to love us or somebody breaks our heart and we realize this fairy tale ain't fair. So we suffer.

Nobody loved her and she wouldn't have liked it if they had, she considered love a serious disability.

I am interested in the loneliness and isolation that we can feel when we hide feelings we are ashamed of, especially if they concern people that we love.