Lonely Quotes - Page 11

Maybe there's a God above, As for me, all I've ever seemed to learn from love Is how to shoot at someone who outdrew you. Yeah but it's not a complaint that you hear tonight, It's not the laughter of someone who claims to have seen the light No it's a cold and it's a very lonely Hallelujah.

Leonard Cohen

Laughter, Love Is, Light

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You know what I noticed when I was with Jacob? In your world, people can reach each other in an instant. There's the telephone, and the fax - and on the computer you can talk to someone all the way around the world. You've got people telling their secrets on TV talk shows, and magazines that publish pictures of movie stars trying to hide their homes. All those connections, but everyone there seems so lonely.

Jodi Picoult

Stars, Home, People

Jodi Picoult (2007). “Plain Truth”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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Lonely? I don't know. They tell me this is cold. I don't know what cold is, because I don't freeze. So I don't know what lonely means either. Bears are made to be solitary.

Philip Pullman

Mean, Bears, Cold

Philip Pullman (1995). “Northern lights”

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Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.

Donna Tartt

Comfort, Gone, Done

Donna Tartt (2002). “The Little Friend”, Vintage

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And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.

William Faulkner

Deep Water, Wind, Long

William Faulkner (2011). “FAULKNER READER”, p.82, Modern Library

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Knowing not grieving remembers a thousand savage and lonely streets.

William Faulkner

Grieving, Knowing, Savages

William Faulkner (1967). “Light in August”, Random House Inc

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Because the Christian God is not a lonely God, but rather a communion of three persons, faith leads human beings into the divine communion. One cannot, however, have a self-enclosed communion with the Triune God- a "foursome," as it were-- for the Christian God is not a private deity. Communion with this God is at once also communion with those others who have entrusted themselves in faith to the same God. Hence one and the same act of faith places a person into a new relationship both with God and with all others who stand in communion with God.

Miroslav Volf

Christian, New Relationship, Self

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Oh that's lovely," said Bunny. "Olive, you've got a date." "Why would you say something so foolish?" Olive asked, really annoyed. "We're two lonely people having supper." "Exactly," said Bunny. "That's a date.

Elizabeth Strout

Two, People, Annoyed

Elizabeth Strout (2008). “Olive Kitteridge: Fiction”, p.259, Random House

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For the air of lonely men surrounded him now, a still atmosphere in which the world around him slipped away, leaving him incapable of relationship, an atmosphere against which neither will nor longing availed. This was one of the significant earmarks of his life.

Hermann Hesse

Men, Air, Leaving

Hermann Hesse (1980). “Six Novels: With Other Stories and Essays”

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There are things that are not spoken about in polite society. Very quickly in most conversations you'll reach a moment where someone goes, 'Oh, that's a bit heavy,' or 'Eew, disgusting.' And literature is a place where that stuff goes; where people whisper to each other across books, the writer to the reader. I think that stops you feeling lonely – in the deeper sense, lonely.

Alain de Botton

Book, Thinking, People

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It is really hard to be lonely very long in a world of words. Even if you don't have friends somewhere, you still have language, and it will find you and wrap its little syllables around you and suddenly there will be a story to live in.

Naomi Shihab Nye

Long, Stories, World

Naomi Shihab Nye (2009). “I'll Ask You Three Times, Are You OK?: Tales of Driving and Being Driven”, p.3, Harper Collins

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In Moscow you sit in a huge room at a restaurant; you know no one and no one knows you, and at the same time you don't feel a stranger. But here you know everyone and everyone knows you, and yet you are a stranger - a stranger... A stranger, and lonely...

Anton Chekhov

Moscow, Rooms, Stranger

Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1930). “The plays of Anton Tchekov: pref. by Eva Le Gallienne”

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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

Loneliness, Night, People

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

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This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out.

Loren Eiseley

Empathy, Humanity, Vision

Loren Eiseley (2011). “The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature”, p.46, Vintage

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I realized that I might be a lonely Indian boy, but I was not alone in the loneliness. There were millions of other Americans who had left their birthplaces in search of a dream. (217)

Sherman Alexie

Dream, Loneliness, Boys

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But also I wanted him to go away and leave me be. I was granted one weak grace. Back in the room where the green chair was still warm from his body, I blew that lonely, flickering candle out

Alice Sebold

Grace, Going Away, Body

Alice Sebold (2014). “The Lovely Bones: Picador Classic”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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I shan't be lonely now. I was lonely; I was afraid. But the emptiness and the darkness are gone; when I turn back into myself now I'm like a child going at night into a room where there's always a light.

Edith Wharton

Children, Night, Light

Edith Wharton (2015). “The Age of Innocence”, p.136, Xist Publishing

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Where are the people?” resumed the little prince at last. “It’s a little lonely in the desert…” “It is lonely when you’re among people, too,” said the snake.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Loneliness, Snakes, People

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Where else? I belong to a lost generation and am comfortable only in the company of others who are lost and lonely.

Umberto Eco

Generations, Lost, Company

Umberto Eco (2007). “Foucault's Pendulum”, p.88, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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These tears I'm wailing, I spill not without reason. Remove them, my dearest love. Take me to the place I've been dreaming of, where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonely and they whisper, just very softly, Please be mine, Dearest Love.

Steven Morrissey

Dream, Tears, Reason

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She realized that being starved for words was the same as being starved for food, because both left a hollow place inside you, a place you needed filled to make it through another day. Rachel remembered how growing up she’d thought living on a farm with just a father was as lonely as you could be. (130)

Ron Rash

Growing Up, Father, Another Day

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Other people, so I have read, treasure memorable moments in their lives: the time one climbed the Parthenon at sunrise, the summer night one met a lonely girl in Central Park and achieved with her a sweet and natural relationship, as they say in books. I too once met a girl in Central Park, but it is not much to remember. What I remember is the time John Wayne killed three men with a carbine as he was falling to the dusty street in Stagecoach, and the time the kitten found Orson Welles in the doorway in The Third Man.

Walker Percy

Girl, Summer, Sweet

Walker Percy (2011). “The Moviegoer”, p.8, Open Road Media

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What are you thinking?" he asks. I know Gage hates it when I cry - he is completely undone by the sight of tears - so I blink hard against the sting. "I'm thinking how thankful I am for everything," I say, "even the bad stuff. Every sleepless night, every second of being lonely, every time the car broke down, every wad of gum on my shoe, every late bill and losing lottery ticket and bruise and broken dish and piece of burnt toast." His voice is soft. "Why, darlin'?" "Because it all led me here to you.

Lisa Kleypas

Hate, Night, Thinking

Lisa Kleypas (2010). “Sugar Daddy: A Novel”, p.415, Macmillan

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One strain could call up the quivering expectancy of Christmas Eve, childhood, joy and sadness, the lonely wonder of a star

Maud Hart Lovelace

Stars, Sadness, Childhood

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It was a kiss made in lonely dreams. A kiss that took its time. A kiss that felt so right she couldn't remember all the reasons it was wrong.

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

Dream, Kissing, Remember

Susan Elizabeth Phillips (2013). “This Heart Of Mine: Number 5 in series”, p.140, Hachette UK

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