Otis Redding Quotes

Mr. Brad Delp. J'ai une ame solitaire. I am a lonely soul.

But inside or out, I was alone, and I was beginning to wonder if I always had been, if I always would be.

The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

I am alone; I am always alone no matter what.

It's a terrible feeling being lonely.

... unspeakably lonely.

It's lonely up here.

Weeks go by, and I don't talk to another living soul.

Loneliness will sit over our roofs with brooding wings.

I have been trying, for some time now, to find dignity in my loneliness. I have been finding this hard to do. It is easier, of course, to find dignity in one's solitude. Loneliness is solitude with a problem.

I have a life that's just been a well of loneliness.

Well, I know about loneliness. I won't talk about it, but I was very lonely after the war. I know what it feels like to spend a whole weekend all by yourself and no one wants you at all.

I thought I knew what loneliness was before he found me, but I had no clue. You don't know what real loneliness is until you've known the opposite.

I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were

These are frightening times...when she feels herself annointed by loneliness.

Loneliness is the most compelling force in the universe.

Does it depress you? To know just how alone you really are?

I believe I'm one of the loneliest people in the world.

But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning.

I had never felt so lonely and so sad in my entire life.

You reach out your hand, but you're all alone, in those time passages.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

Only the lonely know the way I feel tonight.

I was very depressed when I was 19... I would go back to my apartment every day and I would just sit there. It was quiet and it was lonely. It was still. It was just my piano and myself. I had a television and I would leave it on all the time just to feel like somebody was hanging out with me.