Lonely Quotes - Page 26

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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Clary: "He wanted me to come with him. To join him and Sebastain. I guess he wants their evil little duo to be a little evil trio." She shrugged. "Maybe he's lonely. Sebastian cant be the greatest company. Magnus: we don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble.

Cassandra Clare

Evil, Scrabble, Duos

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There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity. Yet many others search their entire lives for something—or someone—worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger.

Ilsa J. Bick

Sacrifice, Doubt, Dying

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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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And Goodness knows The Wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The Wicked die alone

Stephen Schwartz

Wicked, Goodness, Knows

Song: No One Mourns The Wicked

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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

Children, Real, Loneliness

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

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You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why? Because they’re lonely. The past and memories are very lonely things. I don’t believe in God. Because he doesn’t have a fixed form. The past certainly does exist, even in a world where the future doesn’t have a fixed form. Even if it’s being colored by misunderstandings and delusions, a person’s past can’t be anything but the truth as long as he believes in it. If that’s what you base your actions or your way of life on, isn’t that like being god?

Ryohgo Narita

Running, Memories, Believe

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I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were

Kami Garcia

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My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. They are the cradle of the morning, they are the kingdom of the stars. My songs are lost in their depths. Let me but soar in that sky, in its lonely immensity. Let me but cleave its clouds and spread wings in its sunshine.

Rabindranath Tagore

Song, Morning, Stars

Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.75, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.

Bohumil Hrabal

Solitude, Likes, Infinity

Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.

William Faulkner

Loneliness, Spring, Thinking

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...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.

Mary Oliver

Nature, Imagination, Wild Geese

Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”

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But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.

David Lubar

Loneliness, Unique, Men

David Lubar (2005). “Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie”, Dutton Childrens Books

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It's a mystery to me We have a greed with which we have agreed You think you have to want more than you need Until you have it all you won't be free When you want more than you have You think you need And when you think more than you want Your thoughts begin to bleed I think I need to find a bigger place 'Cause when you have more than you think You need more space Society, you're a crazy breed I hope you're not lonely without me Society, crazy and deep I hope you're not lonely without me

Eddie Vedder

Crazy, Thinking, Space

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Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding - whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end it hardly mattered; no matter what they did, we ended up lonely and insane.

Charles Bukowski

Football, Drinking, Beer

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It's lonely to say goodbye. Very lonely. Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings…Meetings. Beginnings. It's not too late…to believe in them after the fact.

Natsuki Takaya

Goodbye, Believe, Too Late

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Join me? Patting the spot beside him, he inclined his head. “Pretty please? I’m lonely all by myself over here.

J. Lynn

Spots, Please, I'm Lonely

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I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

Ruta Sepetys

Book, Character, Interesting

Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.24, Penguin

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You shy, Francesca?” Javier asks me later on. I shake my head. “Not really.” I’m just sad, I want to say. And I’m lonely.

Melina Marchetta

Shy, Want, Ask Me

Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.40, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel as if they’re foreigners - even in their native lands. In our hearts... there also abides a certain suspicion that such people need to feel set apart from their society. But people who initiate loneliness are no less lonely than those who are suddenly surprised by loneliness, nor are they undeserving of our pity.

John Irving

Loneliness, Heart, Views

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It made her eyes fill up with tears, and she for a few more minutes starting it over, replaying it, watching his lips say the words: "We can be lonely together.

Rachel Caine

Eye, Tears, Together

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Sure, he was lonely. Sure, they had a lot in common. Sure, he was attracted to her, and it was clear she felt the same about him.

Tim LaHaye

Common, Clear, Felt

Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins (2011). “Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind”, p.34, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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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. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.

David Levithan

Fighting, Winning, Battle

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

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My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there.

Marya Hornbacher

Reality, Brain, Wish

Marya Hornbacher (2008). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.326, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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We can be lonely together

Rachel Caine

Together

Rachel Caine (2013). “Fall of Night: The Morganville Vampires”, p.34, Penguin

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