Feeling Lonely Quotes - Page 2

• Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

  Paul Tournier

  Love, Dream, Lonely

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• Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Spiritual

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• You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.

  Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

  Dan Brown

  Lonely, Loneliness, Technology

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• It is dreadful when something weighs on your mind, not to have a soul to unburden yourself to. You know what I mean. I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.

  Frederic Chopin

  Life, Music, Philosophy

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• Everyone says love hurts, but that is not true. Loneliness hurts. Rejection hurts. Losing someone hurts. Envy hurts. Everyone gets these things confused with love, but in reality love is the only thing in this world that covers up all pain and makes someone feel wonderful again. Love is the only thing in this world that does not hurt.

  Mesa Selimovic

  Love, Hurt, Pain

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• Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike.

  Maya Angelou

  Life, Sympathy, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Nov 05, 2012

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  Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Music, Lonely

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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• It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone.

  Terry Pratchett

  Cancer, Alzheimer's, Differences

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• There is no loneliness greater than the loneliness of a failure. The failure is a stranger in his own house.

  Eric Hoffer

  Loneliness, Failure, Being Alone

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

  George Eliot

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.935, Xist Publishing

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• Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

  Joseph Conrad

  Lonely, Memories, Loneliness

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Under Western Eyes”, p.39, Joseph Conrad

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• If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

  Jules Renard

  Lonely, Funny Inspirational, Loneliness

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• To dare to live alone is the rarest courage; since there are many who had rather meet their bitterest enemy in the field, than their own hearts in their closet.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Sad, Broken Heart, Lonely

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.211

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• What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• I like the idea of being alone. I like the idea of often being alone in all aspects of my life. I like to feel lonely. I like to need things.

  Robert Plant

  Lonely, Plant Life, Ideas

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• I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Loneliness, Night, Clerks

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.48, Cambridge University Press

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• One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Single, Travel, Loneliness

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, 2: Correspondence and Private Papers”, p.162

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• Loneliness is the first thing which God's eye named not good.

  John Milton

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  John Milton (2009). “The Complete Poetry and Essential Prose of John Milton”, p.997, Modern Library

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• The more you stay in this kind of job, the more you realize that a public figure, a major public figure, is a lonely man.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Lonely, Jobs, Loneliness

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• There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

  Abraham ibn Ezra

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

  Richard Linklater

  Lonely, Feelings, Sitting

  Richard Linklater (2008). “Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays”, p.192, Vintage

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• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

  Wayne Dyer

  Confidence, Lonely, Clever

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• I never feel lonely if I've got a book - they're like old friends. Even if you're not reading them over and over again, you know they are there. And they're part of your history. They sort of tell a story about your journey through life.

  Emilia Fox

  Lonely, Book, Reading

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• If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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