Raymond Carver Quotes

Many of my old friends are gone now. I have a hard time dealing with the fact that they're just not there to talk to. I can't call them up for a rabbit-skin glue recipe anymore.

I've never really had anybody close to me die. I think the song is about a feeling that I have that, it still applies. It's a feeling of longing, once again.

Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious.

Sadly, I haven't been doing a lot of kissing lately.

I really miss a lot of my friends out there.

I will never be happy without having someone. Going to sleep alone kills me.

I feel Noah has been alone for the majority of his life and inherently searching for a family, even though he may not express that outwardly. But his encounter with Rosalee gave him hope in finding someone who thinks like him.

I suppose that there are many novels that are set during the summer because it's a lonely time of year. Friends come and go, comfort comes and goes, which makes it a perfect time of year to indulge in melancholia.

Home is so sad. It stays as it was left, / Shaped to the comfort of the last to go / As if to win them back

Sometimes when I'm alone, I take the pearl from where it lives in my pocket and try to remember the boy with the bread, the strong arms that warded off nightmares on the train, the kisses in the arena.

In my room I'd barely closed my eyes when the blonde from the movie house came along and sang her whole song of sorrow just for me. I helped her put me to sleep, so to speak, and succeeded pretty well... I wasn't entirely alone... It's not possible to sleep alone.

It made her eyes fill up with tears, and she for a few more minutes starting it over, replaying it, watching his lips say the words: "We can be lonely together.

I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off.

All that he had of her was his memory, where he held every moment, every single moment that she had been his. That was all he had, to keep out the loneliness.

I still close my eyes and go home - I can always draw from that.

Chekhov is this poet of melancholy and isolation and of wishing you were somewhere else than where you are.

If I had any advice to give to anybody, it would be record your parents talking so that, when you're longing to hear that voice, you can play the tape. But for me, it's a little often. You don't always need to be reminded that he isn't here anymore.

There's a longing in country music that can soften even the rockiest heart.

Just sharing things that are either embarrassing or possibly relatable, searching for that laugh so that someone makes me feel less alone. Like, 'Oh, they laughed, so they get what I'm saying.

I think 'Lost Boy' is just really relatable. You can be any age from any place in life, and you're bound to feel lonely at some point.

A lot of my songs are about loneliness and losing relationships. Even the ones that are happy, there's a lonely undertone to them.

When you have music in your life, you can never be lonely.

Hotels make me sad. I need a home.

I think people come to my music just to feel less lonely.

I think everyone should definitely know they're not alone.