Lonely Quotes - Page 10

• Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond and you were to come by one evening when the moon was shining down into my dark home and stand there at the edge of my affection and think, “It's beautiful here by this pond. I wish somebody loved me,” I'd love you and be your catfish friend and drive such lonely thoughts from your mind and suddenly you would be at peace, and ask yourself, “I wonder if there are any catfish in this pond? It seems like a perfect place for them.

  Richard Brautigan

  Beautiful, Love You, Home

  Richard Brautigan (1989). “Richard Brautigan's Trout Fishing in America, The Pill Versus the Springhill Mine Disaster, and In Watermelon Sugar”, p.239, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still had the house to yourself. That you and the mice in the walls were the only ones still breathing.

  Stephen King

  Wall, Lying, Breathing

  Stephen King (2008). “Lisey's Story: A Novel”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

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• ...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to control its world and secure itself. We give up our clingings to superiority and self-preservation...It means giving up searching for a home, becoming a refugee, a lonely person who must depend on himself...Fundamentally, no one can help us. If we seek to relieve our loneliness, we will be distracted from the path. Instead, we must make a relationship with loneliness until it becomes aloneness.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Giving Up, Loneliness, Home

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• What is it about men that make women so lonely?

  Elliot Perlman

  Relationship, Men, So Lonely

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• Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Girl, Jealous, Men

  Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in the face of a young girl in the park, buying a snowball under an oak tree by the baseball diamond. But she belongs to back there, to somebody else, and that thought sometimes rends your heart in a way that you never share with anyone else.

  James Lee Burke

  Girl, Baseball, Believe

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• No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back on him. [Astrid]

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Hurt, Men, Pigs

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Dance With the Devil”, p.131, Macmillan

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• I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

  Dr. Seuss

  Life, Winning, Games

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them.

  Jedediah Berry

  Beautiful, People, Way

  Jedediah Berry (2009). “The Manual of Detection: A Novel”, p.8, Penguin

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• He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and so people would know that he existed, and because birds are free and the boxes are hiding places for the birds so they will feel safe, and he wanted to be free and be safe. The boxes are for him so he can be a bird.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  People, Bird, Safe

  Audrey Niffenegger (2014). “The Time Traveler's Wife”, p.381, Simon and Schuster

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• Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It was a conventional opening, the equivalent of straying off the path in the wild woods in one age, or a car breaking down at night on a lonely road in another.

  Iain Banks

  Night, Car, Leaving

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• To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort.

  Graham Greene

  Memories, Comfort, Ifs

  Graham Greene (1951). “The End of the Affair”, London Heinemann [1951]

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• All of the sudden," he said, "I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In two days everything is changed. I'm lonely and I don't now what I'm lonely for

  William Saroyan

  Two, Papa, Different

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• Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to place where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.

  Henri Nouwen

  Compassion, Broken, Suffering

  Henri J. M. Nouwen (2016). “The Spiritual Life: Eight Essential Titles by Henri Nouwen”, p.20, HarperCollins

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• Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu)

  Ai Yazawa

  Two, Different, Being Lonely

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• Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with dreams and laughter and the joy of life; there were to be future summers for the little stone house; meanwhile, it could wait. And over the river in purple durance the echoes bided their time.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Summer, Dream, Laughter

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more”, p.462, e-artnow

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• In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely to see everybody paired off and having a good time and all I did was curl up in my sleeping bag in the rosebushes and sigh and say bah. For me it was just red wine in my mouth and a pile of firewood

  Jack Kerouac

  Wine, Sleep, Trying

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “Road Novels 1957-1960”

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• Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is not community. A multinational corporation is neither a human nor a community, and in the sweatshops, defiled agribusiness fields, genetic mutation labs, ecological dead zones, the inhumanity is showing. Without genuine spiritual community, life becomes a struggle so lonely and grim that even Hillary Clinton has admitted "it takes a village".

  David James Duncan

  Spiritual, Couple, Struggle

  David James Duncan (2007). “God Laughs & Plays: Churchless Sermons in Response to the Preachments of the Fundamentalist Right”, p.99, Triad Institute, Inc.

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• What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America.

  William Saroyan

  Silly, America, Armenians

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• An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do not hate Those that I guard I do not love, My country is Kiltartan Cross, My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor, No likely end could bring them loss Or leave them happier than before. Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public man, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds; I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath, A waste of breath the years behind In balance with this life, this death.

  William Butler Yeats

  Country, Cheer, Hate

  "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" l. 1 (1919)

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• People sometimes make unexpected choices when they're lonely

  Jeanne Birdsall

  People, Choices, Unexpected

  Jeanne Birdsall (2014). “The Penderwicks Collection: The Penderwicks, The Penderwicks on Gardam Street, The Penderwick at Point Mouette”, p.123, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be.

  Suzanne Collins

  Comforting, Firsts, Arena

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.204, Scholastic Inc.

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• A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate lonely bodies, men, insects, stars. It is all loneliness and men know it best.

  Bernard Malamud

  Stars, Loneliness, Men

  Bernard Malamud, Thomas Mallon (2003). “Dubin's Lives: A Novel”, p.66, Macmillan

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• Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mom, Grandma, Thinking

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.69, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when the nurse is looking the other way. If they are not claimed in seven days they are sent far away to the Neverland to defray expanses. I'm captain." What fun it must be!" Yes," said cunning Peter, "but we are rather lonely. You see we have no female companionship." Are none of the others girls?" Oh no; girls, you know, are much too clever to fall out of their prams.

  James M. Barrie

  Girl, Children, Clever

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