Lonely People Quotes

• Absolutely lonely people have few personal interactions of any kind.

  Martha Beck

  Lonely, People, Kind

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  I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

  Robin Williams

  Love, Life, Lonely

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• Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

  Paul Tillich

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Lonely

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• There's a tremendous difference between alone and lonely. You could be lonely in a group of people. I like being alone. I like eating by myself. I go home at night and just watch a movie or hang out with my dog. I have to exert myself and really say, oh God, I've got to see my friends cos I'm too content being by myself.

  Drew Barrymore

  Dog, Lonely, Being Alone

  "Drew Barrymore: Don't mention the c-word". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 26, 2010.

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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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• 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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• Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Life, Lonely

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

  Joan Collins

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

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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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• All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

  Paul McCartney

  Lonely, Loneliness, People

  Song: Eleanor Rigby

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  Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but I feel more lonely in a crowed room with boring people than I feel on my own.

  Henry Rollins

  Lonely, Being Alone, People

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• I don't want to be alone, I want to be left alone.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Hilarious, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

  Lillian Hellman

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Lillian Hellman (1952). “The Autumn Garden: Play in Three Acts”, p.35, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Lonely, Night, People

  Marilynne Robinson (2004). “Housekeeping: A Novel”, p.154, Macmillan

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• I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Lonely, Loneliness, Night

  Ernest Hemingway (1997). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.226, Simon and Schuster

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• ...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Lonely, Confused, Taken

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.172, Penguin

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• It's an industry of lonely people in a crowd, Bill Margold was saying. 'They're scared to get close to each other. You're far better off having someone to sleep next to then having someone to sleep with because you have to trust someone you sleep next to.

  Louis Theroux

  Lonely, Sleep, People

  Louis Theroux (2009). “The Call of the Weird: Encounters with Survivalists, Porn Stars, Alien Killers, and Ike Turner”, p.30, Da Capo Press

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• Lonely people tend, rather, to be lonely because they decline to bear the psychic costs of being around other humans. They are allergic to people. People affect them too strongly.

  David Foster Wallace

  Lonely, Loneliness, Psychics

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, p.21, Hachette UK

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• The Internet is for lonely people. People should live.

  Charlton Heston

  Lonely, People, Internet

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• lonely people are always up in the middle of the night.

  Nicole Krauss

  Lonely, Night, People

  Nicole Krauss (2006). “The History of Love: A Novel”, p.148, W. W. Norton & Company

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• When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

  Simon Van Booy

  Lonely, Rain, Fall

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• There are more than a few messages from lonely people wondering why they never find themselves described...I illustrated one, "How come no one ever misses me?" They kill me, those.

  Sophie Blackall

  Lonely, People, Missing

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Lonely people console themselves with self-absorption or curiosity.

  Mason Cooley

  Lonely, Loneliness, Self

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• For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

  Simon Van Booy

  Lonely, Rain, People

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• Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated and lonely people. It's what people had before television. It yokes people together into an imaginary world. It is just people talking to their imaginary friends, at length. I wouldn't mind, but some of the people are world leaders.

  Dylan Moran

  Lonely, Cake, Talking

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