Lonely Quotes - Page 21

• For Beatrice, when we first met, I was lonely, and you were pretty. Now I am pretty lonely.

  Daniel Handler

  Firsts, Mets, I Am Pretty

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• You're not supposed to have iron bars around you - no one is supposed to have that. You're supposed to fall down hills and get lonely, and find your own food and get wet when it rains. That's what happens when you're alive.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Rain, Fall, Iron

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• The world in books seemed so much more alive to me than anything outside. I could see things I'd never seen before. Books and music were my best friends. I had a couple of good friends at school, but never met anyone I could really speak my heart to. We'd just make small talk, play soccer together. When something bothered me, I didn't talk with anyone about it. I thought it over all by myself, came to a conclusion, and took action alone. Not that I really felt lonely. I thought that's just the way things are. Human beings, in the final analysis, have to survive on their own.

  Haruki Murakami

  Soccer, Couple, Book

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• It made me start to wonder if there were other people so lonely so close. I thought about “Eleanor Rigby.” It’s true, where do they all come from? And where do they all belong?

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  People, Wonder, Made

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.163, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I dwell in a lonely house I know That vanished many a summer ago.

  Robert Frost

  Summer, House, Knows

  Robert Frost (1955). “Selected poems”

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• Maybe you think you’ll be entitled to more happiness later by forgoing all of it now, but it doesn’t work that way. Happiness takes as much practice as unhappiness does. It’s by living that you live more. By waiting you wait more. Every waiting day makes your life a little less. Every lonely day makes you a little smaller. Every day you put off your life makes you less capable of living it.

  Ann Brashares

  Happiness, Thinking, Practice

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• I am but a stranger ... as we all are. Lonely inside our separate skins, we cannot know each others pain and must bear our own in solitude. For my part, I have found that walking soothes it; and that, given luck, sometimes we find one to walk besides us ... at least for a little way.

  Alan Moore

  Pain, Solitude, Luck

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• He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.

  Stephen King

  Hunting, Cells, Splinters

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.280, Anchor

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• Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

  Stevie Smith

  Needs, Miserable, Trouble

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.45, New Directions Publishing

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• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness. We pardon to the extent that we love. Love is knowing that even when you are alone, you will never be lonely again. & great happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved. Loved for ourselves. & even loved in spite of ourselves.

  Victor Hugo

  Kindness, Love Is, Small Acts

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• I know nothing. I know no one. I’m lonely. Every time I see you, you’ve put up some new wall, and you never let me in.

  Lauren Kate

  Wall, Let Me, Knows

  Lauren Kate (2013). “The Fallen Series: 4-Book Collection”, p.500, Delacorte Press

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• I am learning how to be angry and sad and lonely and joyful and excited and afraid and happy.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Excited, Joyful, Angry

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.207, Penguin

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• The missing crowds make you lonely. You begin to complain about all the people you could be meeting. But no one listens or sympathizes with you, because this is precisely what you chose when you were alive.

  David Eagleman

  People, Missing, Complaining

  David Eagleman (2009). “Sum: Tales from the Afterlives”, p.9, Canongate Books

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• Lucian was beginning to get used to hearing her small observations at night. More than anything, he realized he liked her voice in the dark. It made him feel less lonely.

  Melina Marchetta

  Dark, Night, Voice

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• He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage.

  George Orwell

  Long, Broken, Heritage

  George Orwell, A.M. Heath (2003). “Animal Farm and 1984”, p.129, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It's just as easy to be lonely in a city as out in the wilderness. Easier, really. It's harder to get to know someone when you meet in a crowded place. People can freely ignore you in the city; they can assume they don't have any responsibility for you. When there are fewer people, (...) they begin assuming some kind of responsibility, simply because you naturally do the same.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Responsibility, Cities, People

  Mercedes Lackey (1993). “Winds of Change”, p.198, Penguin

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• How can you be lonely? You've got yourself, haven't you? If you ever lose yourself, then you'll really be lonely.

  Joseph Delaney

  Losing Yourself, Havens, Ifs

  Joseph Delaney (2014). “Last Apprentice 3-Book Collection: Revenge of the Witch, Curse of the Bane, Night of the Soul Stealer”, p.39, Harper Collins

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• Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. "It's a start," I said.

  Sarah Dessen

  Moon, House, Peaceful

  Sarah Dessen (2011). “What Happened to Goodbye”, p.89, Penguin

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• Reality was utterly coolheaded and utterly lonely.

  Haruki Murakami

  Reality

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “1Q84 Sampler”, p.4, Random House

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• The lonely reality of the truth-that the most important person in your life suddenly ceased to exist. Which on a bad day meant maybe she had never existed at all. And on a good day, there was the other fear. That even if you were a hundred percent sure she had been there, maybe you were the only one who cared or remembered.

  Kami Garcia

  Good Day, Bad Day, Reality

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• What’s the best part of being in Hermes cabin? Connor: You are never lonely. I mean seriously, new kids are always coming in. So you always have someone to talk to. Travis: Or prank. Connor: Or pickpocket. One big happy family.

  Rick Riordan

  Mean, Kids, Cabins

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• Well, I know about loneliness. I won't talk about it, but I was very lonely after the war. I know what it feels like to spend a whole weekend all by yourself and no one wants you at all.

  Charles M. Schulz

  War, Loneliness, Weekend

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• Her grey eyes sparkled with passion as she spoke. Sid looked into them and for a second he glimpsed her soul. He saw what she was - fierce and brave. Upright. Impatient. And good. So good that she would sit covered in gore, shout at dangerous men, and keep a long, lonely vigil - all to save the likes of him. He realized she was a rare creature, as rare as a rose in winter.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Eye, Passion, Winter

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• Oh, I forgot to tell you," Cookie said. "Amber wants your dad to get a teriyaki machine so she can sing for all the lonely barflies." "I'm a good singer, mom." Only a twelve-year-old could make the word mom sound blasphemous. I leaned into Cookie, "Does she know its not called--?" "No," she whispered. "Are you gonna tell her?" "No. It's much funnier this way.

  Darynda Jones

  Mom, Dad, Years

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• 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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