Lonely Quotes - Page 29

• The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
  Of bugles going by.
  And my lonely spirit thrills
  To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

  Bliss Carman

  Autumn, Asters, Spirit

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Christmas, Mind, Funny Christmas

  Kate Langley Bosher (2005). “How It Happened”, p.15, 1st World Publishing

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• In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Doe, Littles

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• I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;- Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright With tangled gossamer that fell by night, Pearling his coronet of golden corn.

  Thomas Hood

  Autumn, Night, Tangled

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.296, Delphi Classics

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• They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Science, Past

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.353, W. W. Norton & Company

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• But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

  Frank Bruno

  Sports, Athlete, Guy

  "Q: Did you feel suicidal before you were sectioned? A: Nah, I'm not that brave or clever. I wouldn't know how to tie a rope, know what I mean?". October 23, 2005.

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• And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

  Lord Byron

  Wind, Lyric Poetry, Water

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.948, Delphi Classics

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• If your purse no longer bulges
  and you've lost your golden treasure,
  If times you think you're lonely
  and have hungry grown for pleasure,
  Don't sit by your hearth and grumble,
  don't let mind and spirit harden.
  If it's thrills of joy you wish for
  get to work and plant a garden!
  
  If it's drama that you sigh for,
  plant a garden and you'll get it
  You will know the thrill of battle
  fighting foes that will beset it
  If you long for entertainment and
  for pageantry most glowing,
  Plant a garden and this summer spend
  your time with green things growing.

  Edgar Guest

  Summer, Spring, Drama

  Edgar Albert Guest (1916). “A Heap O' Livin' Along Life's Highway”

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• The thorn tree just began to bud
  And greening stained the sheltering hedge,
  An many a violet beside the wood
  Peeped blue between the withered sedge;
  The sun gleamed warm the bank beside,
  'Twas pleasant wandering out a while
  Neath nestling bush to lonely hide,
  Or bend a musings o'er a stile.

  John Clare

  Spring, Blue, Tree

  John Clare (2012). “Careless Rambles by John Clare: A Selection of His Poems Chosen and Illustrated by Tom Pohrt”, p.71, Counterpoint Press

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• In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Mother, Teacher, Jobs

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• I thought I had friends but in the end n*iggaz dies lonely.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Ends, Dies

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• ...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Real, Hands

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mom, Mother, Affectionate

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2004). “Living History”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings in speaking of themselves use the terms "lonely," "friendless," "of small account." Is not this making humility their base?

  Laozi

  Kings, Humility, Foundation

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• At length his lonely cot appears in view,
  Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;
  Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro'
  To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.

  Robert Burns

  Dad, Home, Views

  Robert Burns (1838). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.40

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• When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, "It's okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out."

  Jenna Marbles

  Being Yourself, Feelings, Feeling Sad

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• Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

  Lou Dorfsman

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• To the artist He is the one altogether lovely, and to the educator He is the master teacher. To the philosopher He is the wisdom of God, and to the lonely He is a brother; to the sorrowful, a comforter to the bereaved, the resurrection and the life. And to the sinner he is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin from the world.

  John Gerstner

  Christian, Teacher, Jesus

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• True prayer is a lonely business.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer

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• There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Loneliness, Race

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 11 (1916)

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• Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Loneliness, Discovery, Keys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.282, Penguin

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• It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

  Thomas Reed

  Loneliness, Men, Political

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• This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

  Elie Wiesel

  Loneliness, Responsibility, Our Generation

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• I'm so lost without you. Feeling lonely, scared & cold. I'm so lost without you. Tell me baby, when are you coming home?

  Roch Voisine

  Baby, Lost Love, Home

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