Lonely Quotes

2232 Lonely quotes by 1437 unique authors

But if I decide to decide there’s a different, less selfish, less lonely point to my life, won’t the reason for this decision be my… — David Foster Wallace
It's not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something. May I suggest that it be creating joy for others, sharing… — Leo Buscaglia
Why would you stick someone you love down in a lonely hole in the dirt? Where it's cold, and dirty, and full of bugs? — Kami Garcia
Compassion asks us to go where it hurts, to enter into the places of pain, to share in brokenness, fear, confusion, and anguish. Compassion challenges… — Henri Nouwen
Mirabelle replaces the absent friends with books and television mysteries of the PBS kind. The books are mostly nineteenth-century novels in which women are poisoned… — Steve Martin
There were faces at the windows and words written in blood; deep in the crypt a lonely ghoul crunched on something that might once have… — Neil Gaiman
Is there some lesson on how to be friends? I think what it means is that central to living a life that is good is… — David Rakoff
You were loved because God loves, period. God loved you, and everyone, not because you believed in certain things, but because you were a mess,… — Anne Lamott
Night is beautiful when you are happy--comforting when you are in grief--terrible when you are lonely and unhappy. — Lucy Maud Montgomery
I might be alone, but i'm never lonely. — Megan Hart
The only place their voices were left was in my head. It was better than being alone but it was so, so lonely. — Lilith Saintcrow
I have gone into the waste lonely places — Theodore Roethke
But why people need privacy? Why privacy is important? In China, every family live together, grandparents, parents, daughter, son and their relatives too. Eat together… — Xiaolu Guo
I feel strangely free at such times. To behave properly is to be always courteous, always clever, and subtle and elegant. But now, when I… — Kij Johnson
Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you… — Marilynne Robinson
I never realized that the blue sky I saw was not the soft, nurturing sky of spring, but the cold, chilling, lonely sky of winter — Virginia C. Andrews
Besides, the normal people here wouldn’t see it. That was what “different” meant. It’s just another word for lonely. — Lilith Saintcrow
Our too-young and too-new America, lusty because it is lonely, aggressive because it is afraid, insists upon seeing the world in terms of good and… — Richard Wright
Perhaps I am too tame, too domestic a magician. But how does one work up a little madness? I meet with mad people every day… — Susanna Clarke
you'll never be lonely if you learn to be friend your self — David Archuleta
Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable… — Margaret Thatcher
What I learned The well-documented difference Between alone and lonely The comfort of knowing — David Levithan
We're all lonely for something we don't know we're lonely for. How else to explain the curious feeling that goes around feeling like missing somebody… — David Foster Wallace
I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in love with love,… — Henry Miller
But the worst enemy you can meet will always be yourself; you lie in wait for yourself in caverns and forests. Lonely one, you are… — Friedrich Nietzsche

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