Lonely Quotes

2232 Lonely quotes by 1437 unique authors

She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person I had been… — Deanna Raybourn
...sometimes it only makes one more lonely to know that somewhere else, one's friends and family are well. — Robin Hobb
Here I was again tonight forcing laughter, faking smiles Same old tired, lonely place — Taylor Swift
She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him. — Colm Toibin
I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone… — Jenny Downham
We are so lonely in life that we must ask ourselves if the loneliness of dying is not a symbol of our human existence. — Emile M. Cioran
Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope… — Maya Angelou
Oh, Black known and unknown poets, how often have your auctioned pains sustained us? Who will compute the lonely nights made less lonely by your… — Maya Angelou
The trouble is not really in being alone, it's being lonely. One can be lonely in the midst of a crowd, don't you think? — Christine Feehan
To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the… — J.R.R. Tolkien
You can be lonely even when you are loved by many people, since you are still not anybody's one and only. — Anne Frank
Everything established, settled, everything to do with home and order and the common ground, has crumbled into dust and has been swept away in the… — Boris Pasternak
I'm solitary as a pulled tooth, Lonely as an unwelcome truth, Lost as a minnow out of school, A genius in a crop of fools. — Gail Carson Levine
How many Sundays – how many hundreds of Sundays like this – lay ahead of me? “Quiet, peaceful and lonely,” I said aloud to myself.… — Haruki Murakami
But a mother-son relationship is not a coequal one, is it? He is lonely with only you just as you are lonely with only him. — Mary Balogh
Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline. Part of me… — Henry Rollins
We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from… — Orson Scott Card
She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much. — Betty Smith
My only passions were books and music. As you might guess, I led a lonely life… Not that I knew what I wanted in life… — Haruki Murakami
Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again… — Banana Yoshimoto
When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own?… — Banana Yoshimoto
I need you to protect me from being lonely. Don't fight for me. Be with me.That's what I need."-Bianca to Lucas — Claudia Gray
Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew… — Carl Sandburg
They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found… — Haruki Murakami
The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn… — Yevgeny Zamyatin

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