Lonely Quotes

2232 Lonely quotes by 1437 unique authors

People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure.… — Wendell Berry
I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others. — Christopher Moore
There are men and women so lonely they believe God, too, is lonely. — Carl Sandburg
The Heart is a lonely hunter with only one desire! To find some lasting comfort in the arms of anothers fire...driven by a desperate hunger… — Carson McCullers
If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does… — Audre Lorde
Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles… — Ian Caldwell
The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude. — Voltaire
My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have been living so… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Some time in the night I got up, tiptoed to my window, and looked out at my doghouse. It looked so lonely and empty sitting… — Wilson Rawls
The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud. — Ursula K. Le Guin
Save me, Shahara. Save me from the lonely nights that never end. (Syn) — Sherrilyn Kenyon
It was the most beautiful thing I'd ever seen. How the artist captured the light, the details of my mother's dimples, the joy in my… — Ellen Schreiber
His saliva tasted like the wet dicks of ten thousand lonely truck drivers. — Chuck Palahniuk
What a luxury a cat is, the moments of shocking and startling pleasure in a day, the feel of the beast, the soft sleekness under… — Doris Lessing
If one's different, one's bound to be lonely. — Aldous Huxley
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… — David Foster Wallace
Tore up my heart and shut it down. Nothing to do, nowhere to be. A simple little kind of free. Nothing to do, no one… — John Mayer
No Geologist worth anything is permanently bound to a desk or laboratory, but the charming notion that true science can only be based on unbiased… — Stephen Jay Gould
A lonely impulse of delight — William Butler Yeats
You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I… — Bruce Springsteen
A lot of people spend their time just floating/ We were victims together but lonely. — Jack Johnson
The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow. — Tess Gerritsen
The loneliness you feel with another person, the wrong person, is the loneliest of all. — Deb Caletti
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… — Henry Rollins

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