Petra Kvitova Quotes

When not deeply engaged in creative activities, or numbed out by the TV, I felt empty. My heart hurt. I often felt hollow or as if I were some sort of wispy ghost, barely existing.

We know too much and feel too little.

It is quite amazing what I didn't feel after a while. I didn't really want to feel things.

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.

That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.

No, I never - no one ever - I never learned anything when I was a kid. Honestly, my parents had nothing to tell me - like, no wisdom, nothing.

The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.

I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.

Everyone thought I had everything. I had nothing.

I often feel that when people have affairs, it has more to do with something they're searching for in themselves than anything else.

Some people just aren't meant to be happy.

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

Now that I have found someone, I'm feeling more alone... than I ever have before.

Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel.

I'm half alive but I feel mostly dead.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in.

Women have lives that become increasingly empty. They're doing more and feeling less.

I think I've always had a disconnect from what I'm supposed to be like.

My relationships are based on personal reciprocity. Being a Dodger was a matter of heart, but in the end I felt they didn't want me.

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

One sometimes says: 'He killed himself because he was bored with life.' One ought rather to say: 'He killed himself because he was bored by lack of life.'

Discontent arises from a knowledge of the possible, as contrasted with the actual

I've been pretending to be a man that I'm not my entire life. I've been pretending to be strong when I felt weak, confident when I felt insecure and tough when really I was hurting. And I can tell you right now that it is exhausting.