Lonely Quotes - Page 19

But tonight, because Rome had fallen and Felix was dead, because of Valerius’s shame, the empty hut seemed horribly lonely, and there was a small aching need in him for somebody to notice, even if they were not glad, that he had come home.

Rosemary Sutcliff

Home, Rome, Needs

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So I am lonely, but not alone, like everybody else.

Martin Amis

I Am Lonely, Not Alone

Martin Amis (1991). “Time's arrow, or, The nature of the offence”, Vintage

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Well, see, I think it's that most people don't like that lonely feeling. People don't like looking up and feeling small or lost. That's what I think prayer is all about. It doesn't matter which stories they believe in, they're all doing the same thing, kind of casting a line out to outer space, like there's something out there to connect to. It's like people make themselves part of something bigger that way, and maybe it makes them less afraid.

Craig Silvey

Prayer, Fear, Believe

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The lunatic's visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact. Our civilization is founded on the shambles, and every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.

William James

Civilization, Agony, Vision

William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience”, p.158, Booklassic

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Say who you are, really say it in your life and in your work. Tell someone out there who is lost, someone not yet born, someone who won’t be born for 500 years. Your writing will be a record of your time. It can’t help but be that. But more importantly, if you’re honest about who you are, you’ll help that person be less lonely in their world because that person will recognise him or herself in you and that will give them hope.

Charlie Kaufman

Writing, Years, Giving

"Screenwriters' Lecture: Charlie Kaufman". Speech for BAFTA, www.bafta.org. 30 September 2011.

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He's just a little unbalanced and lonely." He put his arms around my waist, frowning. "Can't he be lonely and unbalanced around someone else's girlfriend?" "I'll suggest it.

Kiersten White

Girlfriend, Frowning, Arms

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I made it the mantra of those days; when I paused before yet another series of switchbacks or skidded down knee-jarring slopes, when patches of flesh peeled off my feet along with my socks, when I lay alone and lonely in my tent at night I asked, often out loud: Who is tougher than me? The answer was always the same, and even when I knew absolutely there was no way on this earth that it was true, I said it anyway: No one.

Cheryl Strayed

Night, Feet, Answers

Cheryl Strayed (2012). “Wild: A Journey from Lost to Found”, p.84, Atlantic Books Ltd

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Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it.

Suzanne Collins

Matter, I Can, Mockingjay

Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.198, Scholastic Inc.

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It suddenly struck me that Dawsey is a lonesome person. I think it may be that he has always been lonely, but he didn't mind before, and now he minds.

Annie Barrows

Thinking, Mind, May

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I don’t smoke, although it looks fantastic in films. But I light matches on those thinking blank nights when I crawl my route out onto the roof of the garage and the sky while my parents sleep innocent and the lonely cars move sparse on the faraway streets, when the pillow won’t stay cool and the blankets bother my body no matter how I move or lie still. I just sit with my legs dangling and light matches and watch them flicker away.

Daniel Handler

Lying, Moving, Sleep

Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.29, Egmont UK

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Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Sebastian Faulks

Mean, Solitary

FaceBook post by Sebastian Faulks from Oct 23, 2016

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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

Loneliness, Psychics, People

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

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And we'd look at each other the way you do when you see someone on the street you think you recognize, but not quite. Someone you wish with all your heart were there but who is actually just a stranger. And you feel a kind of deep longing that hurts like a huge gash and your inability to fix it leaves you frustrated and angry and bone-deep lonely.

Michele Jaffe

Hurt, Heart, Thinking

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A pine tree standeth lonely In the North on an upland bare; It standeth whitely shrouded With snow, and sleepeth there. It dreameth of a Palm tree Which far in the East alone, In the mournful silence standeth On its ridge of burning stone.

Heinrich Heine

Snow, Silence, Tree

Heinrich Heine (1887). “Poems Selected from Heinrich Heine”, London : W. Scott

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... even though it was beautiful and comfortable, and even though it was the world, it was also a little bit boring. No, wait. Maybe boring isn’t the right word. What’s the word I’m wanting here? Lonely. That’s it. It was a little bit lonely.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

Beautiful, Waiting, World

Catherine Ryan Hyde (2010). “Second Hand Heart”, p.172, Random House

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Most of the people are homesick anyway, and a little lonely, and they hide themselves in their hair and are turned into flowers.

Tove Jansson

Flower, Hair, People

Tove Jansson (2006). “A Winter Book: Selected Stories”, Sort of Books

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However, I can’t be happy. I feel I can’t have that experience, I can’t assume I will have that experience. I’m free but feeling lonely and disheartened. I hope there’s happiness out there; besides the future is approaching and waiting for me. In the future, I will be a part of the world. I will finally live my life.

Natsuki Takaya

Waiting, Feelings, World

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Out on the moors, The lonely moors, I roll around in sheep poo. Heathcliff, it's youuuuu, I hate you, I love you tooooo. Let me in, I'm here, it's meeeee, Catheeeeeeee. Look out of your windooooow.

Louise Rennison

Hate, Love You, Sheep

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I was bored. Sad. Lonely. It was only a matter of time before I cracked.

Sarah Dessen

Bored, Matter, Cracked

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Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn’t it? Everything else is artful.

Angela Carter

Character, Mirrors, Giving

Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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Maybe he's lonely. Sebastian can't be the greatest company." "We don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble," said Magnus.

Cassandra Clare

Scrabble, Fantastic, Said

Cassandra Clare (2014). “City of Lost Souls”, p.114, Simon and Schuster

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Nobody's bought this land. And no one's going to want it either. It's dying land, lonely land." "Like me, then," I said. "Yes, like you." You chewed the corner of your lip. "You both need saving.

Lucy Christopher

Land, Dying, Needs

Lucy Christopher (2014). “Stolen”, p.81, Scholastic Inc.

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In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.

Douglas Adams

Whales, Long, Enough

Douglas Adams (2010). “The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy”, p.134, Del Rey

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Lies had deserted me, and I felt as lonely as though they had been my only friends.

Graham Greene

Lying, Deserted, Felt

Graham Greene (1974). “The end of the affair”, Vintage

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I would always be lonely, but no more alone.

Sonya Hartnett

Sonya Hartnett (2006). “Surrender”, Candlewick Press (MA)

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