Lonely Quotes

2232 Lonely quotes by 1437 unique authors

His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his… — Walter de La Mare
It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass… — David Foster Wallace
SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. What is it that we call loneliness. It can't simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and… — Pascal Mercier
Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those… — Leon Uris
Your Catfish Friend If I were to live my life in catfish forms in scaffolds of skin and whiskers at the bottom of a pond… — Richard Brautigan
Lying in the bed that had once held two, Lisey thought alone never felt more lonely than when you woke up and discovered you still… — Stephen King
...We leave our homeland, our property and our friends. We give up the familiar ground that supports our ego, admit the helplessness of ego to… — Chogyam Trungpa
What is it about men that make women so lonely? — Elliot Perlman
Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of… — Ernest Hemingway
I believe every...man remembers the girl he thinks he should have married. She reappears to him in his lonely moments, or he sees her in… — James Lee Burke
No, he wasn't a pig. He was a lonely, hurt man who didn't know how to cope in a world that had turned its back… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
I'm afraid that sometimes you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you. — Dr. Seuss
She was beautiful, in the quiet way that lonely, unnoticed people are beautiful to those who notice them. — Jedediah Berry
He made the boxes because he was lonely. He didn't have anyone to love, and he made the boxes so he could love them, and… — Audrey Niffenegger
Stories set in the Culture in which Things Went Wrong tended to start with humans losing or forgetting or deliberately leaving behind their terminal. It… — Iain Banks
To comfort me is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is lonely one prefers discomfort. — Graham Greene
All of the sudden," he said, "I feel different-- not like I ever felt before. Even when Papa died I didn't feel this way. In… — William Saroyan
In all this welter of women I still hadn't got one for myself, not that I was trying too hard, but sometimes I felt lonely… — Jack Kerouac
Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to… — Henri Nouwen
Being alone and being lonely are two different things. (Yasu) — Ai Yazawa
Behind them in the garden the little stone house brooded among the shadows. It was lonely but not forsaken. It had not yet done with… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
being alone never felt right. sometimes it felt good, but it never felt right. — Charles Bukowski
Our lack of community is intensely painful. A TV talk show is not community. A couple of hours in a church pew each Sabbath is… — David James Duncan
What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America. — William Saroyan
An Irish Airman foresees his Death I Know that I shall meet my fate Somewhere among the clouds above; Those that I fight I do… — William Butler Yeats

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