Language is an inadequate form of communication. If you've picked up an instrument, it's because you don't feel you are communicating sufficiently.
Stephen StillsRead
It's getting to the point where I am no fun anymore, I am sorry. / Sometimes it hurts so badly I must cry out loud, ' I am lonely.' / I am yours, you are mine, you are what you are, you make it hard.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote expresses deep feelings of loneliness and longing within a complex relationship.
In this quote, Stephen Stills conveys the emotional turmoil that can arise from love and connection, where deep attachment brings both joy and pain. The speaker acknowledges their struggle with loneliness and a sense of losing the fun in the relationship, while also expressing devotion to their partner, indicating a desire for understanding and intimacy despite the difficulties they face.
Themes
LonelinessLoveRelationshipsPainAttachment
In practice
Example use cases
A friend may use this quote to express their feelings during a tough time in their romantic relationship.
More from Stephen Stills
All quotes →Speak out. You've got to speak out against the madness
Stephen StillsRead
I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.
Stephen StillsRead
Find the cost of freedom, buried in the ground_x000D_ Mother earth will swallow you_x000D_ Lay your body down.
Stephen StillsRead
Similar quotes
Since Michael died I think I've worked constantly. Friends and colleagues are very sustaining. They're the people who get you through it... It's no good to be on your own.
Judi DenchRead
Like most people I knew, I thought drug addicts were the kinds of people we see in doorways in neighbourhoods most of us try to avoid - people obviously strung out, often homeless and possibly psychotic. I didn't think my son could become addicted, but he had.
David SheffRead
The face is not a secondary billboard for our internal feelings. It is an equal partner in the emotional process.
Malcolm GladwellRead
Favors cease to be favors when there are conditions attached to them.
Thornton WilderRead
I am a trans woman. My sisters are trans women. We are not secrets. We are not shameful. We are worthy of respect, desire, and love. As there are many kinds of women, there are many kinds of men, and many men desire many kinds of women, trans women are amongst these women. And let’s be clear: Trans women are women.
Janet MockRead
The one joy that has kept me going through life has been the fact that stories unite us. To see you as you listen to me now, as you have always listened to me, is to know this: what I can believe, you can believe. And the way we all see our story-not just as Irish people but as flesh and blood individuals and not the way people tell us to see it-that's what we own, no matter who we are and where we come from.
Frank DelaneyRead