Lonely Quotes

2232 Lonely quotes by 1437 unique authors

I closed my eyes and listened carefully for the descendants of Sputnik, even now circling the earth, gravity their only tie to the planet. Lonely… — Haruki Murakami
Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that… — Toni Morrison
By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached… — Edgar Allan Poe
i could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and… — Azar Nafisi
We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our… — Hunter S. Thompson
From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books… — Betty Smith
There's a hole in the world like a great black pit and the vermin of the world inhabit it and its morals aren't worth what… — Stephen Sondheim
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… — James Herriot
Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself. — Sebastian Faulks
...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all… — Marisha Pessl
Solitude has soft, silky hands, but with strong fingers it grasps the heart and makes it ache with sorrow. — Khalil Gibran
He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart. — Rob Sheffield
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
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
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… — Anne Holm
And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all. — Maurice Sendak
Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or… — Claudia Gray
Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good. — John Milton
A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who… — Isak Dinesen
Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far… — Orson Scott Card
A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's… — John Steinbeck
That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all — Nick Hornby
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked… — Jack Kerouac

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