#lonely

I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live. ↗

— David Levithan

#future #lonely #loner #past #motivational

I'm lonely. And I'm lonely in some horribly deep way and for a flash of an instant, I can see just how lonely, and how deep this feeling runs. And it scares the shit out of me to be this lonely because it seems catastrophic. ↗

— Augusten Burroughs

#lonely #sad #sadness #sorrow #sad

When your action is gone, and all that’s left is motionlessness, I’ll be there, whistling.  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#alone #lonely #motion #motionlessness #whistle

Have you ever met someone and felt… I don't know how to describe it, felt a chance at having something that eluded you? I don't know… Forget I said anything." I knew what he meant. He was describing that moment when you realize that you are lonely. For a time you can be alone and doing fine and never give a thought to living any other way and then you meet someone and suddenly you become lonely. It stabs at you, almost like a physical pain, and you feel both deprived and angry, deprived because you wish to be with that person and angry, because their absence brings you misery. It's a strange feeling, akin to desperation, a feeling that makes you wait by the phone even though you know that the call is an hour away. I was not going to lose my balance. Not yet. ↗

— Ilona Andrews

#chance

One plus love equals lonely.  ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#love #equality

Animals keep you company when you're really lonely. It helps because when you have a friend around who always likes you no matter what - it's harder to feel bad or down. ↗

— Aaron Carter

#around #bad #because #company #down

Even cats grow lonely and anxious. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#anxious #cats #even #grow #lonely

The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#job #kind #lonely #major #man

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight. ↗

— Roy Orbison

#i #i feel #know #lonely #only

It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times. ↗