Feeling Lonely Quotes - Page 6

• Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more. Like icy adolescents, such poetry is more interested in commiserating than acknowledging that feelings — the sentiments that make us susceptible to sentimentality — actually exist.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Lonely, Smart, Emotional

  "Wipe That Smirk Off Your Poem". www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2015.

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• Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Lonely, Cheer, Loneliness

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.5

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• Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Lonely, Loneliness, Ancient

  'Mariana' (1830) st. 1.

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• I'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends!

  Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava

  Love, Lonely, Father

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• "I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Lonely, Loneliness

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.458

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• There's no story if there isn't some conflict. The memorable things are usually not how pulled together everybody is. I think everybody feels lonely and trapped sometimes. I would think it's more or less the norm.

  Wes Anderson

  Lonely, Memorable, Thinking

  "Wes Anderson: 'I don't think any of us are normal people'". Interview with Francesca Babb, www.theguardian.com. May 18, 2012.

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• We the living, should not think of the dead as lonely because if they could speak to us, they would say: "Do not weep for me, earth was not my true country, I was an alien there: I am at Home where everyone comes."

  Helen Keller

  Life, Country, Lonely

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• There is no final solution to loneliness until you recognize that you need the resources which are in yourself to enpy, within limits, being alone being the kind of person that you like to be with, and reaching out to others, not in a grasping way, but in an attempt to be meaningful and loving and of service in their lives.

  Truman G. Madsen

  Life, Meaningful, Loneliness

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• Modern man's difficulties, dangerous beliefs and feelings of loneliness, spiritual emptiness,and personal weakness are caused by his illusions about, and separation from, the natural world.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Spiritual, Loneliness, Men

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• Here in a little lonely room I am master of earth and sea, And the planets come to me.

  Arthur Symons

  Lonely, Loneliness, Sea

  Arthur Symons, Roger Holdsworth (2003). “Arthur Symons: Selected Writings”, p.59, Psychology Press

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• In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lonely, Loneliness, Care

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.366

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• Only sad sacks and conformists need things like no kiss on New Year's Eve to remind them to feel lonely. They're as bad as the people who need St. Patty's Day as an excuse to get drunk or Halloween to wear slutty outfits. You can feel sorry for yourself and dress like a hooker all year round: Hallmark never needs to know.

  Julie Klausner

  New Year, Lonely, Sorry

  Julie Klausner (2010). “I Don't Care About Your Band: What I Learned from Indie Rockers, Trust Funders, Pornographers, Felons, Faux-Se nsitive Hipsters, and Other Guys I've Dated”, p.161, Penguin

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• Now that I no longer feel lonely, and now that my own past feels resolved in a whole new and very deep way, I am excited to write about the real world, to stay in it. Fiction is an escape, a parallel life, and it was a powerful source of comfort for me when my own life was raw and uncomfortable. I don't feel the burning need to disappear into a fictional character these days.

  Kate Christensen

  Lonely, Powerful, Real

  Source: therumpus.net

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• How is it that some celebrities, whom the average person would believe to have all the popularity a human being could want, still admit to feeling lonely? It is quite naive to assume that popularity is the remedy for loneliness. Loneliness does not necessarily equal physical solitude, it is the inability to be oneself and rightfully represented as oneself.

  Criss Jami

  Lonely, Loneliness, Believe

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.115, Criss Jami

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• The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.

  Tom Hanks

  Lonely, Loneliness, Cinema

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• I feel lonely at times, but I don't want to get into a relationship with someone if it is not right. I'm not the type of person who just does things to do them.

  Tom Cruise

  Lonely, Want, Doe

  "New Again: Tom Cruise And Cameron Crowe". Interview with Jeff Oloizia, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 15, 2011.

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• All right, that was my moment with loneliness. I'm not afraid of feeling lonely, but now I'm going to put that loneliness aside and know that there are other emotions in the world, and I'm going to experience them as well.

  Morrie Schwartz

  Lonely, Loneliness, Feelings

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• I think, as you're growing up, your emotions are just as deep as they are when you're an adult. You're ability to feel lonely, longing, confused or angry are just as deep. We don't feel things more as we get older.

  Spike Jonze

  Lonely, Growing Up, Confused

  "Spike Jonze and Max Records Interview WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE". Roundtable Interview, collider.com. October 4, 2009.

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• I wonder if leaves feel lonely when they see their neighbors falling?

  John Muir

  Lonely, Fall, Wonder

  John Muir (2013). “John Muir's Last Journey: South To The Amazon And East To Africa: Unpublished Journals And Selected Correspondence”, p.38, Island Press

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• Keep in mind that to avoid loneliness, many people need both a social circle and an intimate attachment. Having just one of two may still leave you feeling lonely.

  Gretchen Rubin

  Lonely, Loneliness, Attachment

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• The voice of life in me cannot reach the ear of life in you; but let us talk that we may not feel lonely.

  Khalil Gibran

  Lonely, Talking, Voice

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• I am not without an object in life, but I feel lonely and deserted.

  Johanna van Gogh-Bonger

  Lonely, Loneliness, Feels

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• I am never bored, never short of anything to do and I don't even ever feel lonely. I am quite gregarious and I get out and about a lot, but sometimes it is just wonderful to be on your own.

  Simon Callow

  Lonely, Bored, Sometimes

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• I'm very social, and in a place like New York, even if you're alone on the subway, you never feel lonely.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Lonely, New York, Subway

  "Ana Gasteyer Talks Living in Suburgatory". Interview with Marisa Fox, www.redbookmag.com. March 15, 2012.

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• Because of my childhood where I was constantly by myself, I always feel lonely. I have a lot of people that I absolutely love and I know love me but I can't get rid of that feeling of loneliness no matter who I'm with - even with my children.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Lonely, Children, Loneliness

  "Natalia Vodianova: My family values". Interview with Britt Collins, www.theguardian.com. March 11, 2011.

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