#lonely

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#bump #business #causing #dull #going

People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#always #eager #existence #lead #lonely

Now it's serious. At last it's becoming serious. So I've grown older. Was I the only one who wasn't serious? Is it our times that are not serious? I was never lonely neither when I was alone, nor with others. But I would have liked to be alone at last. Loneliness means I'm finally whole. Now I can say it as tonight, I'm at last alone. I must put an end to coincidence. The new moon of decision. I don't know if there's destiny but there's a decision. Decide! We are now the times. Not only the whole town - the whole world is taking part in our decision. We two are now more than us two. We incarnate something. We're representing the people now. And the whole place is full of those who are dreaming the same dream. We are deciding everyone's game. I am ready. Now it's your turn. You hold the game in your hand. Now or never. You need me. You will need me. There's no greater story than ours, that of man and woman. It will be a story of giants... invisible... transposable... a story of new ancestors. Look. My eyes. They are the picture of necessity, of the future of everyone in the place. Last night I dreamt of a stranger... of my man. Only with him could I be alone, open up to him, wholly open, wholly for him. Welcome him wholly into me. Surround him with the labyrinth of shared happiness. I know... it's you. ↗

— Wim Wenders

#lonely #love #dreams

I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary. ↗

— Carson Daly

#go #i #lonely #mcmahon #out

Being the boss anywhere is lonely. Being a female boss in a world of mostly men is especially so. ↗

— Robert Frost

#being #boss #especially #female #lonely

Most performers don't admit this, because it sounds negative and performers are not supposed to be negative, but when I was on the road, I was lonely. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#because #i #lonely #most #negative

It is a lonely existence to be a child with a disability which no-one can see or understand, you exasperate your teachers, you disappoint your parents, and worst of all you know that you are not just stupid. ↗

— Susan Hampshire

#disability #disappoint #existence #just #know

Every crag and gnarled tree and lonely valley has its own strange and graceful legend attached to it. ↗

— Douglas Hyde

#every #graceful #legend #lonely #own

I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else. ↗

— Gus Kahn

#happy #i #lonely #rather #somebody

The best an American can look forward to is the lonely pleasure of one who stands at long last on a chilly and inhospitable mountaintop where few have been before, where few can follow and where few will consent to believe he has been. ↗

— George F. Kennan

#been #before #believe #best #chilly