Lonely Quotes - Page 9

• The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all.

  Deb Caletti

  Loneliness, Being Alone, People

  Deb Caletti (2009). “The Fortunes of Indigo Skye”, p.233, Simon and Schuster

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• Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned or are doing the poisoning. She does not read these books as a romantic lonely hearts turning pages in the isolation of her room, not at all. She is instead an educated spirit with a sense of irony. She loves the gloom of these period novels, especially as kitsch, but beneath it all she finds that a part of her indentifies with all that darkness.

  Steve Martin

  Book, Heart, Pbs

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• The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Voice, So Lonely, Left

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• Just understand that the end began long ago We got here just in time Look All the squares in the sidewalks were already there All these strangers have more money than you do All the good riffs have been taken And everyone is so scared Murder is commonplace I don't even flinch at the gunshots outside my window I feel lonely without them

  Henry Rollins

  Taken, Squares, Long Ago

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• I have gone into the waste lonely places

  Theodore Roethke

  Lonely Places, Gone, Waste

  Theodore Roethke (2011). “The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke”, p.229, Anchor

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• Besides, the normal people here wouldn’t see it. That was what “different” meant. It’s just another word for lonely.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  People, Different, Normal

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• Progressive liberals seem incapable of stating the obvious truth: that we who are well off should be willing to share more of what we have with poor people not for the poor people's sake but for our own; i.e., we should share what we have in order to become less narrow and frightened and lonely and self-centered people.

  David Foster Wallace

  Self, Order, People

  David Foster Wallace (2005). “Consider the Lobster: And Other Essays”, p.66, Hachette UK

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• A lot of people spend their time just floating/ We were victims together but lonely.

  Jack Johnson

  People, Together, Floating

  Song: If I Had Eyes, Album: Sleep Through The Static, 2008

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• Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs?

  Kami Garcia

  Dirty, Someone You Love, Bugs

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• Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and bad, the holy and the evil, the high and the low, the white and the black; our America is frightened of fact, of history, of processes, of necessity. It hugs the easy way of damning those whom it cannot understand, of excluding those who look different, and it salves its conscience with a self-draped cloak of righteousness

  Richard Wright

  Self, White, America

  Richard Wright (2010). “American Hunger”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

  Tess Gerritsen

  Heart, Night, Choices

  Tess Gerritsen (2008). “The Keepsake: A Rizzoli & Isles Novel”, p.10, Ballantine Books

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• But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this decision be my desire to be less lonely, meaning to suffer less overall pain? Can the decision to be less selfish ever be anything other than a selfish decision?

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Selfish, Decision

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is a life that's forgiving. We're creatures of contact regardless of whether we kiss or we wound. Still, we must come together. Though it may spell destruction, we still ask for more-- since it beats staying dry but so lonely on shore. So we make ourselves open while knowing full well it's essentially saying "please, come pierce my shell.

  David Rakoff

  Mean, Kissing, Thinking

  FaceBook post by David Rakoff from Nov 09, 2015

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• You were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not because you believed in certain things, but because you were a mess, and lonely, and His or Her child. God loved you no matter how crazy you felt on the inside, no matter what a fake you were; always, even in your current condition, even before coffee. God loves you crazily, like I love you...like a slightly overweight auntie, who sees only your marvelousness and need.

  Anne Lamott

  Children, Crazy, Love You

  Anne Lamott (2010). “Imperfect Birds: A Novel”, p.17, Penguin

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• Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “THE TALES OF AVONLEA - Complete Collection: 16 Novels & 27 Short Stories (Including Anne Shirley Series, Chronicles of Prince Edward Island, The Story Girl & Emily Starr Trilogy)”, p.2791, e-artnow

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• There were faces at the windows and words written in blood; deep in the crypt a lonely ghoul crunched on something that might once have been alive; forked lightnings slashed the ebony night; the faceless were walking; all was right with the world

  Neil Gaiman

  Night, Ghouls, Blood

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• I might be alone, but i'm never lonely.

  Megan Hart

  Might

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• But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives too. Eat together and share everything, talk about everything. Privacy make people lonely. Privacy make family fallen apart.

  Xiaolu Guo

  Daughter, Son, Grandparent

  "A Concise Chinese English Dictionary for Lovers". Book by Xiaolu Guo, 2007.

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• I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I am so alone, I do not have to be any of these things. For this moment, I am wholly myself, unshaped by the needs of others, by their dreams or expectations or sensibilities. But I am also lonely. With no one to shape me, who stands here, watching the moon, or the stars, or the clouds?

  Kij Johnson

  Dream, Stars, Clever

  Kij Johnson (2001). “The Fox Woman”, p.57, Macmillan

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• Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Night, People, Safety

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.154, Macmillan

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• I never realized that the blue sky I saw was not the soft, nurturing sky of spring, but the cold, chilling, lonely sky of winter

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Spring, Winter, Blue

  Virginia C. Andrews (1984). “Seeds of yesterday”, Pocket

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• And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the motorcar have carried the outside world into the most isolated places so that the simple people you used to meet on the lonely farms are rapidly becoming like people anywhere else. There are still a few left, of course—old folk who cling to the ways of their fathers and when I come across any of them I like to make some excuse to sit down and talk with them and listen to the old Yorkshire words and expressions which have almost disappeared.

  James Herriot

  Father, Simple, Expression

  James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.313, Pan Macmillan

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• I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.

  Joseph Conrad

  Destiny, Belief, Desolation

  Joseph Conrad (1999). “Heart of Darkness - Second Edition”, p.121, Broadview Press

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• What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.

  Janet Fitch

  Loneliness, People, Oleanders

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no longer cares to go on living. They're not even desperate... just quiet and expectant, and very, very lonely, as if he were quite alone of his own free choice.

  Anne Holm

  Eye, Men, Choices

  Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics

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