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Lonely Quotes by William James
- It is only in the lonely emergencies of life that our creed is tested: then routine maxims fail, and we fall back on our gods.
- The university most worthy of rational admiration is that one in which your lonely thinker can feel himself lonely, most positively furthered, and most richly…
- The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence…
- Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions…
More Lonely Quotes
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to… — Diane Ackerman
- I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages passing between… — Russell Baker
- Humanity is a failed experiment, but I think I'm God and I'd like to start over. I don't want to die, I… — Roseanne Barr
- There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I… — Drew Barrymore
- To the solemn graves, near a lonely cemetery, my heart like a muffled drum is beating funeral marches. — Charles Baudelaire
- Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind. — Martha Beck
- Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe… — Martha Beck
- At times in my life, I have been utterly lonely. At other times, I've had disgusting infectious diseases. Try admitting these things… — Martha Beck
- Unless we love and are loved, each of us is alone, each of us is deeply lonely. — Mortimer Adler
- Booksellers are the most valuable destination for the lonely, given the numbers of books that were written because authors couldn't find anyone… — Alain de Botton
- What I do is I write mainly about very personal and rather lonely feelings, and I explore them in a different way… — David Bowie