Lonely Quotes - Page 15

• Sometimes I would get invited to a party or to go out to dinner by one of them and I would decline. Part of me wanted to go, but those kind of outings always made me feel even more alienated than usual. Hearing them talk made me feel lonely and hateful at the same time. Lonely because I didn't fit in, never did. When I was reminded, it hurt. And hateful because it reaffirmed what I already knew, that I was alone and on the outside.

  Henry Rollins

  Hurt, Party, Usual

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.33, Villard

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• We thought we were the only thinking beings in the universe, until we met you, but never did we dream that thought could arise from the lonely animals who cannot dream each other's dreams

  Orson Scott Card

  Dream, Animal, Thinking

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.234, Macmillan

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• She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

  Betty Smith

  Girl, Suffering, Different

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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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

  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Me, when I'm utterly exhausted by it all, when my skin breaks out, on those lonely evenings when I call my friends again and again and nobody's home, then I despise my own life - my birth, my upbringing, everything.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Home, Skins, Break Out

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.59, Grove Press

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• I need you to protect me from being lonely. Don't fight for me. Be with me.That's what I need."-Bianca to Lucas

  Claudia Gray

  Fighting, Needs, Need You

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• When was it I realized that, on this truly dark and solitary path we all walk, the only way we can light is our own? Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely. Someday, without fail, everyone will disappear, scattered into the blackness of time.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Dark, Light, Way

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.21, Grove Press

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• The moon, our own, earthly moon is bitterly lonely, because it is alone in the sky, always alone, and there is no one to turn to, no one to turn to it. All it can do is ache across the weightless airy ice, across thousands of versts, toward those who are equally lonely on earth, and listen to the endless howling of dogs. (“A Story About The Most Important Thing”)

  Yevgeny Zamyatin

  Dog, Moon, Ice

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• Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

  Carl Sagan

  Dark, Cosmos, Obscurity

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.29, Ballantine Books

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• Fiftey years isn't too bad. With luck you might see it happen when your a sweet,old granny,dandling big fat babies on your knee. Actully"-he held up a hand,interrupting Kitty's cry of protest-"no,that's wrong. My projection is incorrect." "Good." "You'll never be a sweet old granny. Let's say,'sad,lonely old biddy' instead.

  Jonathan Stroud

  Baby, Sweet, Hands

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• They sat on a park bench, held hands, and told each other their stories hour after hour. They were not lonely anymore. They had found and been found by their 100% perfect other. What a wonderful thing it is to find and be found by your 100% perfect other. It's a miracle, a cosmic miracle.

  Haruki Murakami

  Hands, Perfect, Miracle

  "The Elephant Vanishes". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1994.

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• Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.

  James M. Barrie

  Stars, Children, Adventure

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.32, 谷月社

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• …I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Heart, Eye, Looks

  Louisa May Alcott, Daniel Shealy (2013). “Little Women: An Annotated Edition”, p.537, Harvard University Press

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• I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Sometimes, Dare, I Am Lonely

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “The Complete Little Women Series: Little Women, Good Wives, Little Men, Jo's Boys: The Beloved Classics of American Literature: The coming-of-age series based on the author’s own childhood experiences with her three sisters”, p.428, e-artnow

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• It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Children, Heart, Sunshine

  Louisa May Alcott (2015). “Little Men”, p.41, Xist Publishing

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• It was at that moment he realized that his spirit was truly human once more. For he no longer remembered how to be alone without being lonely.

  Neal Shusterman

  Spirit, Moments, That Moment

  Neal Shusterman (2010). “Everwild”, p.130, Simon and Schuster

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• Making reality real is art's responsibility. It is a practical assignment, then, a self-assignment: to achieve, by a cultivated sensitivity for observing life, a capacity for receiving impressions, a lonely, unremitting, unaided, unaidable vision, and transferring this vision without distortion to it onto the pages of a novel, where, if the reader is so persuaded, it will turn into the reader's illusion.

  Eudora Welty

  Art, Real, Responsibility

  Eudora Welty (2011). “On Writing”, p.53, Modern Library

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• In those days, I still thoroughly enjoyed the romance I called "by myself"; I didn't know yet how it gets lonely, picks up a sharp edge later on that ruins a day now and then-- ruins more than that, if you're not careful.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Romance, Ruins, Now And Then

  Elizabeth Kostova (2010). “The Swan Thieves”, p.302, Hachette UK

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• It's lonely to say goodbye. Very lonely. Please. Cry with me. Maybe there's nothing we can do about this. But at least, for now...cry with me. Like your entire body...is screaming at the sky. Like it's raging against the world. I lost something. And I don't have a single guarantee. The fear of living in this world again after that...I have only a shred of hope to sustain me. So I want you at least...to cry. Cry. Cry with me. Like the day you were first born into this world.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Goodbye, Sky, Guarantees

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• One day we'll look back we'll smile and we'll laugh,but right now we just cry. Cuz it's so hard to say good-bye.

  Miley Cyrus

  Bye, Laughing, One Day

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• In the time since the Baudelaire parents' death, most of the Baudelaire orphans' friends had fallen by the wayside, an expression wich here means "they stopped calling, writing, and stopping by to see any of the Baudelaires, making them lonely". You and I, of course, would never do this to any of our grieving acquaintances, but it is a sad truth that when someone has lost a loved one, friends sometimes avoid the person, just when the presence of friends is most needed.

  Daniel Handler

  Writing, Mean, Grieving

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• Meggie Folchart: Having writer's block? Maybe I can help. Fenoglio: Oh yes, that's right. You want to be a writer, don't you? Meggie Folchart: You say that as if it's a bad thing. Fenoglio: Oh no, it's just a lonely thing. Sometimes the world you create on the page seems more friendly and alive than the world you actually live in.

  Cornelia Funke

  Block, Friendly, Alive

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• Please, don't go. It's lonely. There's a hole in my head as big as the world and it's so very lonely.

  Alan Moore

  World, Holes, Bigs

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• You and I share the same DNA. Is there anything more lonely than that?

  Charlie Kaufman

  Dna, Adaptation, Share

  Charlie Kaufman (2001*). “Adaptation: Screenplay”

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• Anne was always glad in the happiness of her friends; but it is sometimes a little lonely to be surrounded everywhere by happiness that is not your own.

  Lucy Maud Montgomery

  Littles, Sometimes, Glad

  Lucy Maud Montgomery (2016). “L. M. MONTGOMERY – Premium Collection: Novels, Short Stories, Poetry & Autobiography (Including Anne Shirley Novels, Chronicles of Avonlea & The Story Girl Series): Anne of Green Gables, Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, The Golden Road, Kilmeny of the Orchard, The Watchman, Songs of the Sea & many more”, p.651, e-artnow

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