Lonely Quotes - Page 24

• I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why.

  Jack Kerouac

  Men, Doe, Facts

  Jack Kerouac (2000). “Atop an Underwood: Early Stories and Other Writings”, p.92, Penguin

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• The sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt

  Stars, Sun, Disappear

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• Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sweet, Memories, Happy Times

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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• He sees the land of meaning, and one path to it, and the so-called “normal” people traveling swiftly and in comfort to the land; he does not include the shipwrecked people who arrive by devious lonely routes, and the many who dwell in the land in the beginning.

  Janet Frame

  Land, People, Comfort

  Janet Frame (1980). “Faces in the water”

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• No matter how lonely it makes me, and no matter how wide and horrific the loneliness, at least I remember who I am.

  Lauren DeStefano

  Loneliness, Who I Am, Matter

  Lauren DeStefano (2011). “Wither”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• There's something about lonely nights and my lipstick on your face 

  Lady Gaga

  Night, Faces, Your Face

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• I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Feelings, Isolation, Enough

  Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.43, Penguin

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• I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else. I will never feel the pressure of peers or the burden of parental expectation. I can view everyone as pieces of a whole, and focus on the whole, not the pieces. I have learned to observe, far better than most people observe. I am not blinded by the past or motivated by the future. I focus on the present because that is where I am destined to live.

  David Levithan

  Past, Views, People

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.10, Egmont UK

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• I was having an epiphany. A moment of supreme clarity, leading to what I dubbed a “realization of solitude” that goes like this: I’m lonely. But when I left that girl in the window I was sure I’d never felt more godforsaken in my life. There’s a big difference between being alone and being lonely. And I’m guessing that once you’ve discovered this distinction you can’t go back to solitary confinement without serious emotional repercussions.

  Tiffanie DeBartolo

  Girl, Emotional, Differences

  "How to Kill a Rock Star". Book by Tiffanie DeBartolo, 2005.

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• Even if it’s dangerous, and painful, and so very, very lonely. One must go on fighting- It is the only honorable thing to do

  David Klass

  Fighting, Goes On, Painful

  David Klass (2007). “You Don't Know Me”, p.216, Macmillan

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• I don't know why I still feel this pit in my stomach whenever I get a moment to think. I know what the pit is, too; I feel lonely. But I'm not alone, I keep telling myself.

  Pittacus Lore

  Thinking, Pits, Moments

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• Oh, God, I'm so lonely. An entire weekend streching ahead with no one to love or have fun with. Anyway, I don't care. I've got a lovely steamed ginger pudding from M&S to put in the microwave.

  Helen Fielding

  Fun, Weekend, Lovely

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• I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding me of rain falling softly on a broad stretch of sea. I'm the lonely voyager standing on deck, and she's the sea. The sky is a blanket of gray, merging with the gray sea off on the horizon. It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky. Between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

  Haruki Murakami

  Rain, Moving, Fall

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• I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Voice, Perfect, Shining

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• And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely.

  Jay Asher

  Sound, Steps, Strange

  Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.145, Penguin

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• The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic.

  Enid Blyton

  Beautiful, Running, Children

  "The Secret Island (Secret Series, Book 1)". Book by Enid Blyton, 1938.

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• And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.

  Anne Rice

  Heart, Broken, Soul

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• May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Blessed, Grateful, Heart

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.58, Modern Library

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• The one thing I’d learned was that having someone with you all the time did not take away the loneliness. You could be surrounded by people and be lonely. Something was missing. I could almost pinpoint it, but right when it was within my grasp I forgot; it just slipped away.

  Abbi Glines

  Loneliness, People, Missing

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• And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

  Lady Gregory

  Grief, Fighting, Echoes

  Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.108, eBookIt.com

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• It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.

  David Levithan

  Body, Betrayed, Awful

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.154, Egmont UK

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• Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

  Joan Didion

  Notebook, Children, Writing

  Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.98, Zola Books

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• After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

  Robin Sloan

  Book, Dark, Men

  "Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore". Book by Robin Sloan, 2012.

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• And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.

  Lois Lowry

  All Alone

  Lois Lowry (2012). “Son”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely.

  Alan Moore

  Reflection, Men, Trying

  "Watchmen". Comic book by Alan Moore, 1986-1987.

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