Being Lonely Quotes - Page 6

• It's no fun being lonely.

  Maurice Sendak

  Lonely, Fun

  "Maurice Sendak: 'I refuse to lie to children'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2011.

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• In utter loneliness a writer tries to explain the inexplicable.

  John Steinbeck

  Loneliness, Trying, Literature

  John Steinbeck (1990). “Journal of a Novel: The East of Eden Letters”, p.8, Penguin

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• I have tried to talk about the issues in this campaign... and this has sometimes been a lonely road, because I never meet anybody coming the other way.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Lonely, Issues, Political

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• Reading - the best state yet to keep absolute loneliness at bay.

  William Styron

  Loneliness, Reading, Library

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• I've grown used to being lonely over the years, so I don't seek to change it. But aren't there many people who are lonely?

  Sally Field

  Lonely, People

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• Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there.

  Joss Whedon

  Fear, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• When I hear modern people complain of being lonely then I know what has happened. They have lost the cosmos.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Lonely, People, Complaining

  D. H. Lawrence, Mara Kalnins (2002). “Apocalypse and the Writings on Revelation”, p.78, Cambridge University Press

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• If you want to be happy, learn to be alone without being lonely. Learn that being alone does not mean being unhappy. The world is full of plenty of interesting and enjoyable things to do and people who can enrich your life.

  Michael Josephson

  Lonely, Being Alone, Mean

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• I need you to protect me from being lonely. Don't fight for me. Be with me.That's what I need."-Bianca to Lucas

  Claudia Gray

  Lonely, Fighting, Needs

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• Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a neutral state… something that exists only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host?

  Garth Stein

  Lonely, Mind, World

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it.

  Stephen King

  Lonely, Children, Real

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.

  Ronald Anthony Cross

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

  Cyril Connolly

  Love, Dream, Lonely

  "Phil Spector: What I've Learned", www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

  Mark Twain

  Lonely, Self Esteem, Loneliness

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• A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book on loneliness and the store clears out.

  Douglas Coupland

  Loneliness, Book, Being Alone

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “Eleanor Rigby: A Novel”, p.53, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

  Jerzy Kosinski

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Gathering

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• Hollywood is loneliness beside the swimming pool.

  Liv Ullmann

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Swimming

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• We have all known the long loneliness, and we have found that the answer is community.

  Dorothy Day

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Community Living

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• There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

  Abraham ibn Ezra

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

  Lillian Hellman

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Lillian Hellman (1952). “The Autumn Garden: Play in Three Acts”, p.35, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

  Thomas Reed

  Lonely, Loneliness, Men

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• But painting can be too lonely... I like being with people too much to have ever made that my life's work.

  Marie Windsor

  Lonely, Work, People

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• Be - don't try to become. Being is enlightenment, becoming is ignorance.

  Rajneesh

  Nice, Ignorance, Being Sad

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• One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

  George Orwell

  Lonely, Being Sad, Atheism

  George Orwell, Peter Davison (2013). “George Orwell: A Life in Letters”, p.448, W. W. Norton & Company

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• You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.

  Guy Forget

  Sports, Lonely, Littles

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