Lonely Quotes - Page 32

• Forth from his dark and lonely hiding-place, (Portentous sight!) the owlet Atheism, sailing on obscene wings athwart the noon, drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, and hooting at the glorious sun in Heaven, cries out, ''Where is it?''

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dark, Sight, Blue

  'Fears in Solitude' (1798)

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• It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity.

  Nelson Mandela

  Taken, Men, Years

  "Long Walk to Freedom". Book by Nelson Mandela, 1995.

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• Writing is a lonely job, unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

  Emilio Estevez

  Jobs, Writing, Alcohol

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When you least feel like it, do something for someone else. You forget about your own situation. It gives you a purpose, as opposed being sorrowful and lonely.

  Dana Reeve

  Giving, Purpose, Forget

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• You should never feel lonely, neglected, fearful, or defeated when you remember that there are the shining ones. They are watching with keen interest and a great desire to help to raise you, to stimulate you into contact with your own superior inner resources.

  Flower A. Newhouse

  Inspiring, Angel, Shining

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• Humans are lonely creators. Humans always desire and yearn for others. Humans thirst for ambitions. When things don't go their way, they start thirsting for it even more.

  Jeon In-hwa

  Drama, Ambition, Desire

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• Aim for the top. There is plenty of room there. There are so few at the top it is almost lonely there.

  Samuel Insull

  Goal, Rooms, Aim

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• Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority.

  James Thurber

  Character, Men, Age

  James Thurber (1996). “James Thurber: Writings & Drawings (including The Secret Life of Walter Mitty)”, p.1162, Library of America

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• I sit beside my lonely fire
  And pray for wisdom yet:
  For calmness to remember
  Or courage to forget.

  Charles Hamilton Aide

  Fire, Age, Praying

  "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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• Those who wish to change things may face disappointment, loss, or even ridicule. If you are ahead of your time, people laugh as often as they applaud, and being there first is usually lonely. But our protection cannot come between us and our purpose. Right protection is something within us rather than something between us and the world, more about finding a place of refuge and strength than finding a hiding place.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Spiritual, Disappointment, Loss

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• I pray that no missionary will ever be as lonely as I have been.

  Lottie Moon

  Missionary, Praying, Christianity

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• Don't let ignorance blind you. Open your eyes, heart and your mind. And if you're feeling alone, know that the world can be a lonely place, but it would be lonelier without you in it.

  Hayley Williams

  Hate, Eye, Heart

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• There is romance, the genuine glinting stuff, in typewriters, and not merely in their development from clumsy giants into agile dwarfs, but in the history of their manufacture, which is filled with raids, battles, lonely pioneers, great gambles, hope, fear, despair, triumph. If some of our novels could be written by the typewriters instead of on them, how much better they would be.

  J. B. Priestley

  Science, Typewriters, History

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• Oh it gets so lonely
  When you're walking
  And the streets are full of strangers

  Joni Mitchell

  Song, Stranger, Streets

  Song: California

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• I'm not alone, but I am lonely without you.

  Mary Martin

  Valentines Day, Long Distance Relationship, Without You

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• When you're alone and life is making you lonely, you can always go downtown.

  Tony Hatch

  Being Alone, Solitude, Downtown

  Tony Hatch (1976). “So you want to be in the music business”

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• Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for the key to set me free.

  Joni Mitchell

  Baby, Missing Someone, Hurt

  Song: All I Want

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• There was all this loneliness in my cartoons and people would say, "Gee, these characters are so lonely, disconnected, depressed." And I'd say, 'Yeah well, that's not me. I'm just interested in that because I think it makes a funny drawing.' But later I understood it was me in many respects; my hand was doing it ahead of the head's understanding.

  Michael Leunig

  Wisdom, Loneliness, Character

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• I had a stalker while filming a movie in Spain last year. She stood outside my apartment every day for weeks – all day, every day. I was so bored and lonely that I went out and had dinner with [her]. I just complained about everything in my life and she never came back.

  Robert Pattinson

  Years, Bored, Spain

  "Robert Pattinson's just a lonely heart". www.express.co.uk. Februry 9, 2009.

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• Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Writing, Character, Fiction

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• I think [the spotlight] is a lonely place to be. Everybodys wanting something from you, pulling at you.

  Angie Everhart

  Thinking, Spotlight, Pulling

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• When you are lonely, when you feel yourself an alien in the world, play Chess. This will raise your spirits and be your counselor in war

  Aristotle

  War, Play, World

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• Cricket is a most precarious profession; it is called a team game but, in fact, no one is so lonely as a batsman facing a bowler supported by ten fieldsmen and observed by two umpires to ensure that his error does not go unpunished.

  John Arlott

  Team, Games, Umpires

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• Each of us knew that the journey to exaltation would be long, strenuous, and sometimes lonely, but we also knew that we would not travel alone. Heavenly Father provides all who fulfill the prerequisites of faith, repentance, and baptism with a companion and guide, the Holy Ghost.

  Keith K. Hilbig

  Father, Journey, Long

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• In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.

  Walker Percy

  Faith, Inspiration, Mass Culture

  Walker Percy (2011). “Signposts in a Strange Land”, p.161, Open Road Media

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