Lonely Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

  Patrick deWitt

  Spring, Insomnia, Men

  Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.35, Granta Books

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• How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Art, Remember, Rich

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1305, Delphi Classics

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• We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Thinking, Self, Long

  Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

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• ...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.

  Junot Diaz

  Heart, Air, Way

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• Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".

  Craig Thompson

  Fall, Space, Snow

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• Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you really love what you need so badly? Isn’t a big part of love caring more about what the other person needs? How am I supposed to subordinate my own overwhelming need to somebody else’s needs that I can’t even feel directly? And yet if I can’t do this, I’m damned to loneliness, which I definitely don’t want … so I’m back at trying to overcome my selfishness for self-interested reasons.

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Loneliness, Caring

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• Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood, Remember only this of our hopeless love That never till Time is done Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one

  Edith Sitwell

  Kings, Heart, Dark

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.

  Haruki Murakami

  Taken, Lakes, Clouds

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “After Dark”, p.152, Random House

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• There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.

  Gene Wolfe

  Believe, Men, Lovers

  Gene Wolfe (2001). “There Are Doors”, p.277, Macmillan

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• What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.

  Haruki Murakami

  Eye, Hands, Body

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• It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

  John le Carre

  Vanity, People, Assuming

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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.

  David Levithan

  Drifters, Term

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

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• Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are on the right path. Solitude is better for us, as it means being alone without feeling lonely. But eventually it is best to find a person, the person who will be your mirror. Remember, only in another person's heart can you truly see yourself and the presence of God within you.

  Elif Safak

  Loneliness, Believe, Heart

  "The Forty Rules of Love". Book by Elif Safak, March 2009.

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• Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed—although he doesn’t know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then you’re simply sad, or lonely, or just painfully aware, on a daily basis, of all the things you can never get back.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Believe, Years, Shapes

  Jonathan Tropper (2012). “One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel”, p.8, Penguin

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• I felt very lonely when they were all there.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Felt

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.78, Hamilton Books

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• I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

  Emma Forrest

  Crazy, Eccentric, Dangerous

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.145, A&C Black

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• So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

  Pico Iyer

  Loneliness, People, Produce

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• Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

  Fred Rogers

  Loneliness, Solitude, Different

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.122, Penguin

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• I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

  Mother Teresa

  Thinking, Feelings, Suffering

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sing to me," she said. "That would be valiant, to raise your voice in this dark, lonely place, and it will be useful as well. Sing to me, sing loudly-drown out my dreams, keep me from remembering whatever wants me to remember it. Sing to me, my lord prince, if it please you. It may not seem a hero's task, but I would be glad of it.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Hero, Dark

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

  Donald Miller

  Powerful, Loneliness, Soul

  "Blue Like Jazz". Book by Donald Miller, 2003.

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• Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV. Except when they don't Because, sometimes they won't. I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

  Dr. Seuss

  Fun, Winning, Games

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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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

  Mind, World, Viruses

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

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