Lonely Life Quotes - Page 2

• Nobody stood by Jesus. Maybe nobody will stand by you. It's a lonely life, but it's a glorious life.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Lonely, Jesus, Glorious Life

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• Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Lonely, Sweet, Memories

  Louisa May Alcott (1997). “A Long Fatal Love Chase”, Thorndike Pr

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• It is a lonely life sometimes, like throwing a stone into the deep darkness. It might hit something, but you can’t see it. The only thing you can do is to guess, and to believe.

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Believe, Darkness

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• 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 - I didn’t. I loved reading novels to distraction, but didn’t write well enough to be a novelist; being an editor or a critic was out, too, since my tastes ran to the extremes. Novels should be for pure personal enjoyment, I decided, not part of your work or study. That’s why I didn’t study literature

  Haruki Murakami

  Lonely, Book, Reading

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• I've always dreamt of having some sort of undercover job. I think it's probably the coolest thing in the world, but ultimately a very lonely life.

  Rashida Jones

  Lonely, Jobs, Thinking

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• Men's legs have a terribly lonely life - standing in the dark in your trousers all day.

  Ken Dodd

  Lonely, Dark, Men

  "The reviewer reviewed: 40 years of Michael Billington". Interview with Michael McNay, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2011.

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• My wife, who, poor wretch, is troubled with her lonely life.

  Samuel Pepys

  Lonely, Wife, Poor

  'Diary' 19 December 1662

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• In the turbulence of this anxious and active world many people are leading uneventful, lonely lives. To them dreariness, not disaster, is the enemy. They seldom realize that on their steadfastness, on their ability to withstand the fatigue of dull repetitive work, and on their courage in meeting constant small adversities depend in great measure the happiness and prosperity of the community as a whole. ... The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

  Queen Elizabeth II

  Running, Lonely, Adversity

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• pacifists lead a lonely life. Not even gathering together can take the place of that vast, warm sun of approval that is shed on motherhood, on law-abiding, on killing, and on making money. Someday will we come into our own? Well, motherhood may move into the shade. Law-abiding is going through a trauma. But killing and making money are good for a long, long time.

  Josephine Winslow Johnson

  Lonely, War, Moving

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• I didn't have any role models. I really thought I was doomed to this loveless, lonely life. I didn't know any gay people until I began doing theater.

  Bryan Batt

  Lonely, Gay, People

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