Lonely Quotes

2232 Lonely quotes by 1437 unique authors

A man is an island in the only sense that matters, not an easy way to be. We live in mystery, a cosmos of separate… — Bernard Malamud
People sometimes make unexpected choices when they're lonely — Jeanne Birdsall
I realize, for the first time, how very lonely I've been in the arena. How comforting the presence of another human being can be. — Suzanne Collins
Mom told me, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be Grandma, don’t you think?” I told her, “It probably gets pretty lonely to be anyone — Jonathan Safran Foer
But where do you live mostly now?" With the lost boys." Who are they?" They are the children who fall out of their perambulators when… — James M. Barrie
Maybe there's a God above, As for me, all I've ever seemed to learn from love Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you.… — Leonard Cohen
You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and… — Jodi Picoult
Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what… — Philip Pullman
The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in… — Frederick Buechner
Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was… — Donna Tartt
And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long… — William Faulkner
Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets. — William Faulkner
Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One… — Miroslav Volf
Oh that's lovely," said Bunny. "Olive, you've got a date." "Why would you say something so foolish?" Olive asked, really annoyed. "We're two lonely people… — Elizabeth Strout
For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship,… — Hermann Hesse
There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's… — Alain de Botton
It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language,… — Naomi Shihab Nye
In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time… — Anton Chekhov
I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained… — Ernest Hemingway
I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself… — Edith Wharton
This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent… — Loren Eiseley
I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who… — Sherman Alexie
But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green… — Alice Sebold
Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,”… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely. — Umberto Eco

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