Lonely Quotes - Page 12

Ah, Los Angeles! Dust and fog of your lonely streets, I am no longer lonely. Just you wait, all of you ghosts of this room, just you wait, because it will happen, as sure as there's a God in heaven.

John Fante

Fog, Dust, Waiting

"Ask the Dust". Book by John Fante, 1939.

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Please, no one touch my heart. Don't touch it. Don't notice anything. No one has to know what my heart is feeling. I decided that I wouldn't turn back. That's why I threw everything away. So, don't you ever say, "I'm lonely.

Arina Tanemura

Heart, Feelings, Please

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From that moment on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again.

Betty Smith

Reading, World, Moments

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Hello toes," I say. They're good toes. I like that they're long and slender and not the slightest bit stubby. I wiggle them, ten unstubby waves that say, "And hello to you, Human Host!" Except they're toes. I'm talking to my toes. Maybe I'm not bored... maybe I'm lonely?

Lauren Myracle

Talking, Bored, Long

Lauren Myracle (2013). “Bliss”, p.74, Abrams

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When you are young, you think it's going to be solved by love. But it never is. Being close -- as close as you can get -- to another person only makes clear that impassable distance between you.' If being in love only made people more lonely, why would everyone want it so much?' Because of the illusion. You fall in love, it's intoxicating, and for a little while you feel like you've actually become one with the other person. Merged souls and so on. You think you'll never be lonely again.

Nicole Krauss

Falling In Love, Distance, Being In Love

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After the first establishment of identity there comes the imperative need to lose this new-found sense of separateness and to belong to something larger and more powerful than the weak, lonely self. The sense of moral isolation is intolerable to us.

Carson McCullers

Powerful, Self, Identity

Carson McCullers (1975). “The mortgaged heart”, Penguin Books Ltd

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I sit and feel lonely. Sitting and feeling lonely is something I am a spectacular success at. I can do it for hours. Everyone is good at something.

Martin Millar

Feelings, Sitting, Hours

Martin Millar (2009). “Ruby and the Stone Age Diet”, p.39, Soft Skull Press

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English, however, is kinky. It has a predilection for dressing up like Welsh on lonely nights.

John H. McWhorter

Night, Dressing Up, Kinky

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All the fear in the world, and the violence that comes from the fear, and the hatred that comes from the violence, and the lonliness that comes from the hatred. All the unhappiness, all the cruelty, it gathers like clouds in the air, and grows dark and cold and heavy, and falls like grey snow in thick layers over the land. Then the world is muffled and numb, and no one can hear each other or feel each other. Think how sad and lonely that must be.

William Nicholson

Fall, Dark, Thinking

William Nicholson (2002). “Firesong”, Egmont Books (UK)

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To share is precious, pure and fair. Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there?

Marvin Gaye

Play, Care, Cherish

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I always tell the girls never take it seriously, if you never take it seriously you never get hurt, if you never get hurt you always have fun, and if you ever get lonely just go to the record store and visit your friends.

Cameron Crowe

Girl, Hurt, Fun

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Sometimes I feel so- I don’t know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you’re used to has been ripped away. Like there’s no more gravity, and I’m left to drift in outer space with no idea where I’m going’ Like a little lost Sputnik?’ I guess so.

Haruki Murakami

Ideas, Space, Feelings

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I’m here because I know the sadness inside you. I know what it feels like to wake in the morning, lost and lonely and aching for someone to be there with me. (Sebastian)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Morning, Sadness, Lost

Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “In Other Worlds”, p.177, Penguin

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Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.

Haruki Murakami

Sex, Real, Loneliness

Haruki Murakami (2011). “A Wild Sheep Chase”, p.11, Random House

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It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.

Alain de Botton

Book, Should, Stations

Alain de Botton (2003). “The Art of Travel”, p.28, Penguin UK

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How long can we maintain? I wonder. How long before one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family. Will he make that grim connection.

Hunter S. Thompson

Home, Boys, Thinking

Hunter S. Thompson (2010). “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream”, p.9, Vintage

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I don't understand how people can stand next to you one year,and next year, they cannot. They're going crazy, screaming. They can't take it that you're there. But last year I was in the same club,walking around,lonely like a motherfucker. Couldn't get a date or a dance. I was too skinny, too something, and now, "He's just adorable. He's just, oh!

Tupac Shakur

Crazy, Years, Adorable

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People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive. We need drugs, apparently, because we have lost each other.

Wendell Berry

Hate, Drug Use, People

Wendell Berry (2003). “The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry”, p.61, Counterpoint

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I fear you may become a lonely man, even in the company of others.

Christopher Moore

Men, May, Company

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If you do not learn to hate you will never be lonely enough to love easily nor will you always be brave, although it does not grow any easier. Do not pretend to convenient beliefs, even when they are righteous; you will never be able to defend your city while shouting.

Audre Lorde

Hate, Cities, Brave

Audre Lorde (2000). “The Collected Poems of Audre Lorde”, p.63, W. W. Norton & Company

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Like all things in the universe, we are destined from birth to diverge. Time is simply the yard-stick of our separation. If we are particles in a sea of distance, exploded from an original whole, then there is a science to our solitude. We are lonely in proportion to our years.

Ian Caldwell

Distance, Years, Sea

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My boots were so heavy that I was glad there was a column beneath us. How could such a lonely person have been living so close to me my whole life? If I had known, I would have gone up to keep him company.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Gone, Boots, Columns

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Some time in the night I got up, tiptoed to my window, and looked out at my doghouse. It looked so lonely and empty sitting there in the moonlight. I could see that the door was slightly ajar. I thought of the many times I had lain in my bed and listened to the squeaking of the door as my dogs went in and out. I didn't know I was crying until I felt the tears roll down my cheeks.

Wilson Rawls

Dog, Night, Doors

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The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps.

T. S. Eliot

Horse, Winter, Smell

Prufrock (1917) "Preludes"

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I am no more lonely than the loon on the pond that laughs so loud.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Laughing, Ponds, Loud

Ursula K. Le Guin (1967). “Three Hainish Novels”

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