Lonely Quotes

2232 Lonely quotes by 1437 unique authors

And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending… — Lady Gregory
It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it. — David Levithan
Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment… — Joan Didion
After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast… — Robin Sloan
Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold… — Alan Moore
The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know. — Patrick deWitt
How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone. — Vincent Van Gogh
We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of… — Vincent Van Gogh
...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely… — Junot Diaz
Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with… — Craig Thompson
Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you… — David Foster Wallace
Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a… — Edith Sitwell
Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake. — Haruki Murakami
arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely… — Dale Carnegie
What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body;… — Haruki Murakami
Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers. You can fill your life up with ideas and still go home lonely. All… — Janis Joplin
It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts. — John le Carre
I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone… — David Levithan
Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are on the right… — Elif Safak
Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed—although he doesn’t know if you call it depression when you… — Jonathan Tropper
I've noticed that loneliness gets stronger when we try to face it down, but gets weaker when we simply ignore it. — Paulo Coelho
I felt very lonely when they were all there. — Ernest Hemingway
I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely. — Emma Forrest
Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing. — Fred Rogers
So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves. — Pico Iyer

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