Lonely World Quotes

• The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Life, Lonely, Loneliness

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• Where you used to be, there is a hole in the world, which I find myself constantly walking around in the daytime, and falling in at night. I miss you like hell.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  I Miss You, Missing You, Broken Heart

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  Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

  Haruki Murakami

  Life, Sad, Lonely

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 05, 2011

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• Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Life, Lonely

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• It would do the world good if every man would compel himself occasionally to be absolutely alone. Most of the world s progress has come out of such loneliness.

  Bruce Barton

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Loneliness, Sputnik

  "Sputnik Sweetheart". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1999.

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• This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

  Waylon Jennings

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Song: I Tremble For You, 1967

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• Yanagihara's most impressive trick is the way she glides from scenes filled with those terrifying hyenas to moments of epiphany. 'Wasn't it a miracle to have survived the unsurvivable? Wasn't friendship its own miracle, the finding of another person who made the entire lonely world seem somehow less lonely? Wasn't this house, this beauty, this comfort, this life a miracle?' A Little Life devotes itself to answering those questions, and is, in its own dark way, a miracle.

  Marion Winik

  Lonely, Dark, Miracle

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• I do whatever comes my way. But I get burned out on stage. It's a lonely world. I think part of the romanticism about being on the road is you get to meet a lot of - my mom once told me, "You've probably got a woman at every port." Like I'm a pirate. Obviously she doesn't know her son that well.

  Zach Galifianakis

  Mom, Lonely, Son

  "Zach Galifianakis: Soon You Will Be Laughing at This Man". Interview with Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. June 2, 2009.

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• I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space.

  Gerald Kersh

  Lonely, Dog, Stars

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• Everything I've ever felt, but could never put into words, is poetically orchestrated through Mat Devine 's writing. In a lonely world, a book like this will make you feel like you belong. Simply put, Weird War One changed my life.

  Kat Von D

  Lonely, War, Book

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• I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!

  Andrew Taylor

  Lonely, Artist, World

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• We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness.

  Vijay Prashad

  Song, Lonely, Xenophobia

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• I know of no realm of life that can provide more companionship in a lonely world or greater feelings of security and purpose in chaotic times than the close ties of a family.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Family, Lonely, Ties

  Charles R. Swindoll (1994). “The Strong Family”, Zondervan

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• People who are exceptionally intelligent are often lonely because there are few people as intelligent as them. I have two little children and everyone says: 'I hope they're doing well in school. I hope they're bright.' And I think: why would anyone want their children to be the brightest? Academia is a lonely world.

  Helen McCrory

  Lonely, Children, School

  "Helen McCrory: 'Most of the attention I get is from younger men'". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. April 13, 2013.

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• It's a lonely world, being independent, and they can come away with the idea that if Lloyd Kaufman can make movies with people getting their heads squashed, with hard-bodied lesbians, women masturbating with pickles, graphic diarrhea, and singing and dancing chicken zombies - if he can do that for 40 years and put his kids through Yale, Columbia, and Duke - if that idiot can do it, anybody can do it.

  Lloyd Kaufman

  Lonely, Kids, Independent

  Interview with Sean O'Neal, www.avclub.com. May 7, 2008.

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