Loner Quotes - Page 5

• Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

  James Russell Lowell

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Character

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.32

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• The loner who looks fabulous is one of the most vulnerable loners of all.

  Anneli Rufus

  Looks, Fabulous, Vulnerable

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• We entrepreneurs are loners, vagabonds, troublemakers. Success is simply a matter of finding and surrounding ourselves with those open-minded and clever souls who can take our insanity and put it to good use.

  Anita Roddick

  Clever, Entrepreneur, Insanity

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• Early in my career I was divided because I had the real self underneath: the lawbreaker, the anarchist, the person who swims against the tide, the outsider, the loner, all of that guy. He was my private self, and I had this other side that wanted to be liked in order to do all those things I dreamed of as a little boy. I didn't realize that those things didn't go together until later. And I'm quite sure that my use of acid and peyote helped me accept what was really going on inside of me instead of what I had imposed on myself.

  George Carlin

  Real, Boys, Self

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• We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.

  Fanny Howe

  Lonely, Sky, Joy

  Fanny Howe (2000). “Indivisible”, Semiotext

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• I love tranquil solitude
  And such society
  As is quiet, wise, and good.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Love, Wise, Solitude

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1874). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley”, p.294

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• In high school, I was kind of a loner because I had moved to a new school.

  Jennie Garth

  School, Kind, Moved

  "Jennie Garth: 'When I Was 17'". www.seventeen.com. August 20, 2010.

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• I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

  Kevin Conroy

  Running, Distance, Kids

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• Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.

  Lucille Kallen

  Female, Thorough, Spades

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• Lately he'd been seen going out less and less, becoming that strangest of animals in a small town: a loner.

  Kristin Hannah

  Animal, Going Out, Towns

  Kristin Hannah (2006). “Magic Hour: A Novel”, p.38, Ballantine Books

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• She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

  Eleanor Catton

  Girl, School, Savages

  Eleanor Catton (2009). “The Rehearsal”

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• Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude.

  John Stuart Blackie

  Men, Solitude, Glitter

  John Stuart Blackie (1857). “Lays and legends of ancient Greece: with other poems”, p.260

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• Until I truly loved, I was alone.

  Caroline Norton

  Love

  Caroline Sheridan Norton (1862). “The Lady of La Garaye”, p.75

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• Our "society" is not a community, but merely a collection of isolated family units. Desperately insecure, fearing his woman will leave him if she's exposed to other men or to anything remotely resembling life, the male seeks to isolate her from other men and from what little civilization there is, so he moves her out to the suburbs, a collection of self-absorbed couples and their kids. Isolation, further, enables him to try to maintain his pretense of being an individual by being a "rugged individualist", a loner, equating non-co-operation and solitariness with individuality.

  Valerie Solanas

  Couple, Moving, Kids

  "SCUM Manifesto". P. 7, 1967.

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• Despite the persistent image of the architect as a heroic loner erecting monumental edifices through sheer force of will, the building art has always been a highly cooperative enterprise.

  Martin Filler

  Art, Force Of Will, Heroic

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• But when I am around strangers, I turn into a conversational Mount St. Helens. I'm dormant, dormant, quiet, quiet, old-guy loners build log cabins on the slopes of my silence and then, boom, it's 1980. Once I erupt, they'll be wiping my verbal ashes off their windshields as far away as North Dakota.

  Sarah Vowell

  Silence, Guy, Log Cabins

  FaceBook post by Sarah Vowell from May 18, 2015

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• I always considered myself a loner. I mean, not like a poor-me, Byron-esque, I-should-have-brought-a-swimming-buddy loner. I mean the sort of person who doesn’t feel too upset about the prospect of a weekend spent seeing no one, and reading good books on the couch. It wasn’t like I was a people hater or anything. I enjoyed activities and the company of friends. But they were a side dish. I always thought I would be happy without them.

  Jim Butcher

  Book, Reading, Mean

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• But in spite of my great desire for intimacy, I've always been a loner. Perhaps when the longing for connection is as strong as it is in me, when the desire is for something so deep and true, one knows better than to try. One sees that this is not the place for that.

  Elizabeth Berg

  Strong, Desire, Trying

  Elizabeth Berg (2001). “Never Change”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

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• I was a real loner in high school, even though people assume I was the head cheerleader.

  Kate Bosworth

  Cheerleading, Real, School

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• Even when I was coming through school I was a loner and I used to study music and listen to it and play it and play it, and I was in bands.

  Billy West

  School, Play, Band

  "Billy West: The Many (Cartoon) Voices In His Head". "Fresh AIr" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. July 15, 2010.

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• I have characterized Nixon as a loner, a cold man with great self-confidence and a one-track mind centered on the advancement of Richard Nixon.

  Barry Goldwater

  Self Confidence, Men, Track

  Barry Morris Goldwater (1980). “With No Apologies”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• I'm not a loner at all.

  Hugh Jackman

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• Some socks are loners They can't live in pairs.

  Wendy Cope

  Pairs, Sock

  2001 If I Don't Know,'The Sorrow of Socks'.

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• I tend to be a loner – I think a lot of social theorists are like that. On one level, the majority of the most important people to me are people who I have imaginary conversations with in the deep of the night: I'm often in conversation with Max Weber or Karl Marx or someone like that. Those are the people I'm closest to and that have had the most influence on me!

  George Ritzer

  Night, Thinking, People

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• I grew up in Tennessee where you either play football or you don't do anything at all. So I was a bit of loner, being interested in music.

  Justin Timberlake

  Football, Play, Tennessee

  Source: www.indielondon.co.uk

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