Lonely Quotes - Page 18

• Just because I am alone, does not mean I am lonely. I am not you.

  Tsugumi Ohba

  Mean, Doe, I Am Lonely

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• Riches, prestige, everything can be lost. But the happiness in your heart can only be dimmed; it will always be there as long as you live, to make you happy again. Whenever you're feeling lonely or sad, try going to the loft on a beautiful day and looking outside. Not at the houses and the rooftops, but at the sky. As long as you can look fearlessly at the sky, you'll know that your pure within and will find happiness once more.

  Anne Frank

  Beautiful, Heart, Sky

  Anne Frank (1997). “The diary of a young girl”

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• When I'm with him, there is someone with me in my house of grief, someone who knows its architecture as I do, who can walk with me, from room to sorrowful room, making the whole rambling structure of wind and emptiness not quite as scary, as lonely as it was before.

  Jandy Nelson

  Grief, Wind, House

  Jandy Nelson (2010). “The Sky Is Everywhere”, p.59, Penguin

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• He says he’s lonely, horribly lonely because of this love he feels for her. She says she’s lonely too. She doesn’t say why.

  Marguerite Duras

  Feels

  Marguerite Duras (2011). “The Lover”, p.37, Pantheon

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• People need other people to feel things for them," she said. "It gets lonely to feel things all by yourself.

  Lauren Oliver

  People, Needs, Said

  Lauren Oliver (2011). “Liesl & Po”, p.23, Harper Collins

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• Human beings, in point of fact, are lonely by nature, and one should feel sorry for them and love them and mourn with them. It is certain that people would understand one another better and love one another more if they would admit to one another how lonely they were, how sad they were in their tormented, anxious longings and feeble hopes.

  Halldór Laxness

  Sorry, People, And Love

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• Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely.

  Ray Bradbury

  Wall, Men, Together Again

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.30, Hamilton Books

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• When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

  Louis L'Amour

  Men, Kind, One Of A Kind

  Louis L'Amour (2004). “The Lonesome Gods”, p.490, Bantam

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• Unfortunately, the world has taken some of the greatest minds God has given us and locked them up in cages. Most very brilliant or creative people seem strange to ordinary people. Geniuses are almost always outcasts. The intelligent are bullied on the playground. They see the world differently and are shunned for it. They nearly all turn out to be lonely at the least, locked up at the worst. It's human nature to encourage the status quo and shun those who see life differently.

  Ted Dekker

  Taken, Intelligent, People

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• It is a lonely life sometimes, like throwing a stone into the deep darkness. It might hit something, but you can’t see it. The only thing you can do is to guess, and to believe.

  Haruki Murakami

  Believe, Darkness, Stones

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• As if to build a fence around the fatal emptiness inside her, she had to create a sunny person that she became. But if you peeled away the ornamental egos that she had built, there was only an abbys of nothingness and the intense thirst that came with it. Though she tried to forget it, the nothingness would visit her periodically - on a lonely rainy afternoon, or at dawn when she woke up from a nightmare. What she needed at such times was to be held by someone, anyone.

  Haruki Murakami

  Ego, Dawn, Afternoon

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• Don't say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of your understanding. I have such a fear of finding another like myself, and such a desire to find one! I am so utterly lonely, but I also have such a fear that my isolation be broken through, and I no longer be the head and ruler of my universe. I am in great terror of your understanding by which you penetrate into my world; and then I stand revealed and I have to share my kingdom with you.

  Anais Nin

  Broken, Understanding, Say Anything

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• I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery boys. I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?

  Allen Ginsberg

  Angel, Boys, Asking Questions

  Allen Ginsberg (2001). “Howl and Other Poems: Pocket Poets Number 4”, p.29, City Lights Publishers

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• I wasn’t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could find no meaning.

  Charles Bukowski

  Self, Pity, Caught

  Charles Bukowski (2009). “sifting through the madness for the word, the line, the way: New Poems”, p.316, Zondervan

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• Don't you understand? Listen carefully to what I'm saying. If you do, you'll get it. you can grasp this easily. In short...in short, I shut myself in because I'm lonely. Because I don't want to face any more loneliness, I shut myself away.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Loneliness, Want, Faces

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• Headline?" he asked. "'Swing Set Needs Home,'" I said. "'Desperately Lonely Swing Set Needs Loving Home,'" he said. "'Lonely, Vaguely Pedophilic Swing Set Seeks the Butts of Children,'" I said.

  John Green

  Children, Home, Swings

  John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.86, Penguin UK

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• I tried not to think about my life. I did not have any good solid plans for it long-term - no bad plans either, no plans at all - and the lostness of that, compared with the clear ambitions of my friends (marriage, children, law school), sometimes shamed me. Other times in my mind I defended such a condition as morally and intellectually superior - my life was open and ready and free - but that did not make it less lonely.

  Lorrie Moore

  Children, Ambition, School

  Lorrie Moore (2009). “A Gate at the Stairs”, p.29, Faber & Faber

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• It was the time of year, the time of day, for a small insistent sadness to pass into the texture of things. Dusk, silence, iron chill. Something lonely in the bone.

  Don DeLillo

  Sadness, Years, Iron

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.66, Pan Macmillan

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• Even a good place gets to be a rut, especially if you're standing in it alone... Alone and lonely have the same root.

  Nora Roberts

  Roots, Ruts, Standing

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• When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didn't have mentors. We didn't have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.

  John Logan

  Art, Parent, Vision

  John Logan (2012). “Red”, p.34, Oberon Books

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• ...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward.

  Susan Cain

  Strong, Believe, Bored

  "The Power of Introverts: A Manifesto for Quiet Brilliance". Interview with Gareth Cook, www.scientificamerican.com. January 24, 2012.

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• She had to go," said Rose. "It was because of her angel," said Indigo. "And because of Granddad," added Caddy. "And because of her nose stud." "And because her name isn't on the color chart." "She's lonely," said Rose. "That's why.

  Hilary McKay

  Angel, Color, Names

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• I've been lonely for so long. And I've been hurt so deeply. If only I could have met you again a long time ago, then I wouldn't have had to take all these detours to get here.' Tengo shook his head. 'I don't think so. This way is just fine. This is exactly the right time. For both of us. [...] We needed that much time.... to understand how lonely we really were.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hurt, Thinking, Long

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• Writing is a lonely job. Having someone who believes in you makes a lot if difference. They don't have to makes speeches. Just believing is usually enough.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Believe, Writing

  Stephen King (2000). “On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft”, p.44, Simon and Schuster

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• He was thirty-one now, not too old, but old enough to be lonely. He hadn't dated since he'd been back here, hadn't met anyone who remotely interested him. It was his own fault, he knew. There was something that kept a distance between him and any woman who started to get close, something he wasn't sure he could change even if he tried. And sometimes in the moments right before sleep came, he wondered if he was destined to be alone forever.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Distance, Sleep, Forever

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