Lonely Quotes

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  Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Heartbreak

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

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• One degrades oneself sometimes in the effort not to be lonely.

  John Fowles

  Effort, Sometimes, Oneself

  2003 After a late night socializing. In The Journals: Volume1, 24 Dec 1950.

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• Maintaining the illusion that I am in control is futile, lonely, and in the long run more always costly than the effort is worth.

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Running, Long, Effort

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• If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that.

  Yoko Ono

  Men, House, Trying

  "The Lost John Lennon Interview". Interview with Tariq Ali, www.counterpunch.org. December 8, 2005.

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• Girl, I got my mind. And what goes on in it. Which is to say, I got me...my lonely is mine.

  Toni Morrison

  Girl, Mind, Goes On

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• Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

  Douglas Coupland

  Life, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Douglas Coupland (1993). “Shampoo Planet”, p.259, Simon and Schuster

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• We camouflage our true being before others to protect ourselves against criticism or rejection. This protection comes at a steep price... we are misunderstood. When we are misunderstood, especially by family and friends, we join the 'lonely crowd.' Worse... we tend to lose touch with our real selves.

  Sidney Jourard

  Real, Self, Rejection

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• If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? If I'm such a legend, then why do I sit at home for hours staring at the damned telephone, hoping it's out of order, even calling the operator asking her if she's sure it's not out of order?

  Judy Garland

  Home, Order, Asking

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• I believe that it is sometimes less difficult to wake up and feel that I am alone when I really am, than to wake up with someone else and be lonely.

  Liv Ullmann

  Loneliness, Believe, Wake Up

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• We've all of us got to meet the devil alone. Temptation is a lonely business.

  Margaret Deland

  Temptation, Devil

  Margaret Deland (1969). “Dr. Lavendar's People”

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• ... family and friends aren't always ready to make the journey when you are, and you just have to keep plowing along whether they have confidence in you or not. That can be very lonely.

  Anne Bancroft

  Journey, Family And Friends, Plowing

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• You have a choice in life. Would you rather be lonely or miserable? I would rather be lonely. A lot of people are miserable in a marriage and they don't get along with their wife or husband and it's not worth it.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Husband, Wife, People

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• If you really want to be lonely, get married.

  Gloria Steinem

  Want, Married, Ifs

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• I think that part of being human is being alone, and being lonely. I think one of the stresses on a lot of our friendships is that we require the people we love to take away that loneliness. and they really can't. And so, when we still feel lonely, even in the company of people we love, we become angry with them because they don't do what we think they're supposed to. Which is really something that they can't do for us.

  Rich Mullins

  Loneliness, Stress, Thinking

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• Life was good to me. I had a great wife, good kids, money, my own health -- and I'm lonely and bored.

  O. J. Simpson

  Kids, Wife, Bored

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• You can't work at a relationship; you can't control it. You have to be lucky and go through your life. If you are not lucky you have to be prepared for some degree of suffering. That's why most relationships are very difficult and have some degree of pain. People stay together because of inertia, they don't have the energy. Because they are frightened of being lonely, or they have children.

  Woody Allen

  Children, Pain, People

  "Woody Allen: 'The whole thing is tragic'". The Talks Interview, the-talks.com. July 20, 2012.

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• That's the great thing about literature -- it makes the world less lonely.

  Robert Stone

  Literature, World, Great Things

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• Not to climb the high places lonely, but to climb there all together, to rise en masse! This is the way!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Together, Way, Climbs

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• Sometimes what holds you together and what tears you apart are the same things.
  My lungs are made of armor so that I can breathe when you are not here.
  6.8 million people live alone in England. Do you feel lonely?
  I don't have the courage to face reality so I get lost in my dreams.
  You know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different.

  Bill Watterson

  Dream, Reality, People

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• Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it's intoxicating, and for a little while, you actually feel like you've become one with the other person, merged souls and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again.

  Nicole Krauss

  Falling In Love, Thinking, Soul

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• Everyone feels awkward, everyone feels uncomfortable, everyone gets older, everyone gets lonely, everyone gets sick, everyone eventually dies. You’re at the Aspen Ideas Fest, and you have these really smart, really accomplished people who pretend like they’ve somehow figured out a way to bypass the human condition. We live in this culture where there are so many things that want us to pretend that we’re not truly human.

  Moby

  Smart, Ideas, Sick

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I think God leaves me alone to let me find my own strength because no one else can give it to me. Sometimes it is very lonely. But I know the lonely times teach me the most. I must let go in order to let anything in. No one can love me, for me.

  Sabrina Ward Harrison

  Letting Go, Thinking, Order

  "Spilling Open: The Art of Becoming Yourself". Book by Sabrina Ward Harrison, 1999.

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• It was not the beautiful or pleasant feelings that gave me new insight, but the ones against which I fought most strongly: feelings that made me experience myself as shabby, petty, mean, helpless, humiliated, demanding, resentful or confused, and above all, sad and lonely. It was precisely through these experiences, which I had shunned for so long, that I became certain that I now understood something about my life, stemming from the core of my being, something that I could not have learned from any book.

  Alice Miller

  Beautiful, Confused, Book

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• Sin is a lonely thing, a worm wrapped around the soul, shielding it from love, from joy, from communion with fellow men and with God. The sense that I am alone, that none can hear me, none can understand, that no one answers my cries, it is a sickness over which, to borrow from Bernanos, “the vast tide of divine love, that sea of living, roaring flame which gave birth to all things, passes vainly.” Your job, it seems, would be to find a crack through which some sort of communication can be made, one soul to another.

  Phil Klay

  Jobs, Communication, Men

  Phil Klay (2014). “Redeployment”, p.90, Penguin

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• People love honesty. Honesty is medicinal, I think. It makes people feel less lonely in the world.

  Brad Listi

  Honesty, Thinking, People

  Source: therumpus.net

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