Carmen Dell'Orefice Quotes

I wanted to be left alone to live my life, so it was very easy for people to pretend that they were me.

Sometimes I just wish nobody knew who I was.

Nobody knows me.

There was something special about being in a strange place, all alone in a mass of people even if you had just screwed up your life, or perhaps especially if you had just screwed up your life.

I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.

Men's legs have a terribly lonely life - standing in the dark in your trousers all day.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who "every one" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was.

You can forget who you are if you're alone too much.

In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger - a stranger... A stranger, and lonely...

Thus let me live, unseen, unknown, Thus unlamented let me die, Steal from the world, and not a stone Tell where I lie.

He walked on in silence, the solitary sound of his footsteps echoing in his head, as in a deserted street, at dawn. His solitude was so complete, beneath a lovely sky as mellow and serene as a good conscience, amid that busy throng, that he was amazed at his own existence; he must be somebody else's nightmare, and whoever it was would certainly awaken soon.

I was like, "Everybody sees my characters. Nobody sees me!"

Facts are lonely things.

A great city is a great solitude.

She liked to imagine that when she passed, the world looked after her, but she also knew how anonymous she was. Except when she was at work, no one knew where she was at any time of day and no one waited for her. It was immaculate anonymity.

The thinking man always finds himself in a gigantic orphanage in which people are continually proving to him that he has no parents.

I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you.

I wanted to be where nobody I knew could ever come.

I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.

It is sometimes advantageous to be unseen, although it is most often rather wearing on the nerves.

There were people everywhere on the city street, but the stranger could not have been more alone if it were empty.

New York was a city where you could be frozen to death in the midst of a busy street and nobody would notice.

What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.