Lonely Quotes - Page 13

Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.

Ian Caldwell

Distance, Years, Sea

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What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under your palm, the warmth when you wake on a cold night, the grace and charm even in a quite ordinary workaday puss. Cat walks across your room, and in that lonely stalk you see leopard or even panther, or it turns its head to acknowledge you and the yellow blaze of those eyes tells you what an exotic visitor you have here, in this household friend, the cat who purrs as you stroke, or rub his chin, or scratch his head.

Doris Lessing

Cat, Eye, Night

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My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have been living so close to me my whole life? If I had known, I would have gone up to keep him company.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Gone, Boots, Columns

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Some time in the night I got up, tiptoed to my window, and looked out at my doghouse. It looked so lonely and empty sitting there in the moonlight. I could see that the door was slightly ajar. I thought of the many times I had lain in my bed and listened to the squeaking of the door as my dogs went in and out. I didn't know I was crying until I felt the tears roll down my cheeks.

Wilson Rawls

Dog, Night, Doors

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.

T. S. Eliot

Horse, Winter, Smell

Prufrock (1917) "Preludes"

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I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Laughing, Ponds, Loud

Ursula K. Le Guin (1967). “Three Hainish Novels”

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Save me, Shahara. Save me from the lonely nights that never end. (Syn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Night, Ends, Save Me

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It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. How the artist captured the light, the details of my mother's dimples, the joy in my father's eyes, all through gentle strokes from his palette. The artist made me look alive when I felt lonely and grim inside. That's the way this man saw me. I decided then that that's what I wanted to do

Ellen Schreiber

Beautiful, Mother, Father

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His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers.

Chuck Palahniuk

Truck, Saliva, Thousand

Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Tell-All”, p.16, Random House

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Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Loneliness, Snakes, People

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These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonely and they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love.

Steven Morrissey

Dream, Tears, Reason

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Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

Umberto Eco

Generations, Lost, Company

Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel remembered how growing up she’d thought living on a farm with just a father was as lonely as you could be. (130)

Ron Rash

Growing Up, Father, Another Day

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What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast." His voice is soft. "Why, darlin'?" "Because it all led me here to you.

Lisa Kleypas

Hate, Night, Thinking

Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.415, Macmillan

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Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.

Walker Percy

Girl, Summer, Sweet

Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.8, Open Road Media

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One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star

Maud Hart Lovelace

Stars, Sadness, Childhood

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It was a kiss made in lonely dreams. A kiss that took its time. A kiss that felt so right she couldn't remember all the reasons it was wrong.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Dream, Kissing, Remember

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2013). “This Heart Of Mine: Number 5 in series”, p.140, Hachette UK

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Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets, I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of you ghosts of this room, just you wait, because it will happen, as sure as there's a God in heaven.

John Fante

Fog, Dust, Waiting

"Ask the Dust". Book by John Fante, 1939.

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Please, no one touch my heart. Don't touch it. Don't notice anything. No one has to know what my heart is feeling. I decided that I wouldn't turn back. That's why I threw everything away. So, don't you ever say, "I'm lonely.

Arina Tanemura

Heart, Feelings, Please

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From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

Betty Smith

Reading, World, Moments

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Hello toes," I say. They're good toes. I like that they're long and slender and not the slightest bit stubby. I wiggle them, ten unstubby waves that say, "And hello to you, Human Host!" Except they're toes. I'm talking to my toes. Maybe I'm not bored... maybe I'm lonely?

Lauren Myracle

Talking, Bored, Long

Lauren Myracle (2013). “Bliss”, p.74, Abrams

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When you are young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close -- as close as you can get -- to another person only makes clear that impassable distance between you.' If being in love only made people more lonely, why would everyone want it so much?' Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it's intoxicating, and for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with the other person. Merged souls and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again.

Nicole Krauss

Falling In Love, Distance, Being In Love

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Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

William Faulkner

Grieving, Knowing, Savages

William Faulkner (1967). “Light in August”, Random House Inc

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Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the Triune God- a "foursome," as it were-- for the Christian God is not a private deity. Communion with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted themselves in faith to the same God. Hence one and the same act of faith places a person into a new relationship both with God and with all others who stand in communion with God.

Miroslav Volf

Christian, New Relationship, Self

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Oh that's lovely," said Bunny. "Olive, you've got a date." "Why would you say something so foolish?" Olive asked, really annoyed. "We're two lonely people having supper." "Exactly," said Bunny. "That's a date.

Elizabeth Strout

Two, People, Annoyed

Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.259, Random House

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