Loner Quotes - Page 5

• The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

  Anneli Rufus

  Looks, Fabulous, Vulnerable

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• Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Character

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.32

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• We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.

  Anita Roddick

  Clever, Entrepreneur, Insanity

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• Early in my career I was divided because I had the real self underneath: the lawbreaker, the anarchist, the person who swims against the tide, the outsider, the loner, all of that guy. He was my private self, and I had this other side that wanted to be liked in order to do all those things I dreamed of as a little boy. I didn't realize that those things didn't go together until later. And I'm quite sure that my use of acid and peyote helped me accept what was really going on inside of me instead of what I had imposed on myself.

  George Carlin

  Real, Boys, Self

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• We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.

  Fanny Howe

  Lonely, Sky, Joy

  Fanny Howe (2000). “Indivisible”, Semiotext

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• Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.

  Lucille Kallen

  Female, Thorough, Spades

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• I love tranquil solitude
  And such society
  As is quiet, wise, and good.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Wise, Solitude

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

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• In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.

  Jennie Garth

  School, Kind, Moved

  "Jennie Garth: 'When I Was 17'". www.seventeen.com. August 20, 2010.

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• I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

  Kevin Conroy

  Running, Distance, Kids

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• Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she's exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation, further, enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual by being a "rugged individualist", a loner, equating non-co-operation and solitariness with individuality.

  Valerie Solanas

  Couple, Moving, Kids

  "SCUM Manifesto". P. 7, 1967.

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• Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Men, Solitude, Glitter

  John Stuart Blackie (1857). “Lays and legends of ancient Greece: with other poems”, p.260

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• Until I truly loved, I was alone.

  Caroline Norton

  Love

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1862). “The Lady of La Garaye”, p.75

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• Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.

  Kristin Hannah

  Animal, Going Out, Towns

  Kristin Hannah (2006). “Magic Hour: A Novel”, p.38, Ballantine Books

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• She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

  Eleanor Catton

  Girl, School, Savages

  Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”

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• I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn’t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Strong, Desire, Trying

  Elizabeth Berg (2001). “Never Change”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• Especially for people of our generation, who really celebrated certain attitudes - the outsider, the loner - it can have a real impact on the art when they realize, I have friends, I'm married, or I have kids. That's certainly happened to me.

  Adrian Tomine

  Art, Attitude, Real

  Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.

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• Two Windclan apprentices were wandering toward them. Fireheart twitched his ears to warn his friends they had an audience. "Oh, yes," meowed Ravenpaw, raising his voice. "We loners eat Clan apprentices whenever we can catch one.

  Erin Hunter

  Two, Voice, Ears

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• I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.

  Barry Goldwater

  Self Confidence, Men, Track

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1980). “With No Apologies”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I do tend to have characters that I guess are in some way loners or dealing with obstacles that they have to confront that ultimately make them a better person in a way.

  Craig Gillespie

  Character, Way, Obstacles

  Source: collider.com

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• Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Force Of Will, Heroic

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• The first question she was asked was What do you do? as if that were enough to define you. Nobody ever asked you who you really were, because that changed. You might be a judge or a mother or a dreamer. You might be a loner or a visionary or a pessimist. You might be the victim, and you might be the bully. You could be the parent, and also the child. You might wond one day and heal the next.

  Jodi Picoult

  Mother, Children, Judging

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.447, Simon and Schuster

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• You are the leader here. Obviiusly your skills are far superior to mine. I don't think I could fit into your life. I'm a loner, not the first lady.

  Christine Feehan

  Thinking, Skills, Leader

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• I am completely a loner. In my head I want to feel I can be anywhere. There is a sort of recklessness that being a loner allows me.

  Arundhati Roy

  Want, Feels, I Can

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• There are some people who do great stuff singing and playing fiddle at the same time and doing that kind of arrangement. But I think [I don't do that] partially because I'm still a loner on the guitar and banjo.

  Sam Amidon

  Thinking, Guitar, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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