Lonely Quotes - Page 21

I stare at her chest. As she breathes, the rounded peaks move up and down like the swell of waves, somehow reminding me of rain falling softly on a broad stretch of sea. I'm the lonely voyager standing on deck, and she's the sea. The sky is a blanket of gray, merging with the gray sea off on the horizon. It's hard to tell the difference between sea and sky. Between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.

Haruki Murakami

Rain, Moving, Fall

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I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.

Lois McMaster Bujold

Voice, Perfect, Shining

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And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely.

Jay Asher

Sound, Steps, Strange

Jay Asher (2016). “Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.145, Penguin

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The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle of it. It was a mysterious island, lonely and beautiful. All the children stood and gazed at it, loving it and longing to go to it. It looked so secret - almost magic.

Enid Blyton

Beautiful, Running, Children

"The Secret Island (Secret Series, Book 1)". Book by Enid Blyton, 1938.

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And so this young one, this young one whom I had so loved, I had to forsake, no matter how broken my heart, no matter how lonely my soul, no matter how bruised my intellect and spirit.

Anne Rice

Heart, Broken, Soul

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May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Blessed, Grateful, Heart

Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.58, Modern Library

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The one thing I’d learned was that having someone with you all the time did not take away the loneliness. You could be surrounded by people and be lonely. Something was missing. I could almost pinpoint it, but right when it was within my grasp I forgot; it just slipped away.

Abbi Glines

Loneliness, People, Missing

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And my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.

Lady Gregory

Grief, Fighting, Echoes

Lady Gregory (2013). “The Essential Lady Gregory Collection”, p.108, eBookIt.com

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It is an awful thing to be betrayed by your body. And it’s lonely, because you feel you can’t talk about it.

David Levithan

Body, Betrayed, Awful

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.154, Egmont UK

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Keepers of private notebooks are a different breed altogether, lonely and resistant rearrangers of things, anxious malcontents, children afflicted apparently at birth with some presentiment of loss.

Joan Didion

Notebook, Children, Writing

Joan Didion (2013). “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, p.98, Zola Books

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After that, the book will fade, the way all books fade in your mind. But I hope you will remember this: A man walking fast down a dark lonely street. Quick steps and hard breathing, all wonder and need. A bell above a door and the tinkle it makes. A clerk and a ladder and warm golden light, and then: the right book exactly, at exactly the right time.

Robin Sloan

Book, Dark, Men

"Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore". Book by Robin Sloan, 2012.

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And it was lonely, to yearn, all alone.

Lois Lowry

All Alone

Lois Lowry (2012). “Son”, p.299, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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Blake understood. Treated it like a joke, but he understood. He saw the cracks in society, saw the little men in masks trying to hold it together...he saw the true face of the twentieth century and chose to become a reflection of it, a parody of it. No one else saw the joke. That's why he was lonely.

Alan Moore

Reflection, Men, Trying

"Watchmen". Comic book by Alan Moore, 1986-1987.

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The creak of bed springs suffering under the weight of a restless man is as lonely a sound as I know.

Patrick deWitt

Spring, Insomnia, Men

Patrick deWitt (2011). “The Sisters Brothers”, p.35, Granta Books

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How rich art is, if one can only remember what one has seen, one is never empty of thoughts or truly lonely, never alone.

Vincent Van Gogh

Art, Remember, Rich

Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1305, Delphi Classics

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We feel lonely now and then and long for friends and think we should be quite different and happier if we found a friend of whom we might say: “He is the one.” But you, too, will begin to learn that there is much self-deception behind this longing; if we yielded too much to it, it would lead us from the road.

Vincent Van Gogh

Thinking, Self, Long

Vincent van Gogh (2014). “Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)”, p.1113, Delphi Classics

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...and when he thought about the way she laughed, as though she owned the air around her, his heart thundered inside his chest, a lonely rada.

Junot Diaz

Heart, Air, Way

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Pressed against her I can hear eternity -- hollow, lonely spaces and currents that churn ceaselessly, and the fallen snow welcomes the falling snow with a whispered "Hush".

Craig Thompson

Fall, Space, Snow

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Is it possible really to love other people? If I’m lonely and in pain, everyone outside me is potential relief—I need them. But can you really love what you need so badly? Isn’t a big part of love caring more about what the other person needs? How am I supposed to subordinate my own overwhelming need to somebody else’s needs that I can’t even feel directly? And yet if I can’t do this, I’m damned to loneliness, which I definitely don’t want … so I’m back at trying to overcome my selfishness for self-interested reasons.

David Foster Wallace

Pain, Loneliness, Caring

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Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood, Remember only this of our hopeless love That never till Time is done Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one

Edith Sitwell

Kings, Heart, Dark

Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake.

Haruki Murakami

Taken, Lakes, Clouds

Haruki Murakami (2011). “After Dark”, p.152, Random House

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What would tomorrow bring? I wondered. Both hands on the wheel, I closed my eyes. I didn’t feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing. What would become of me tomorrow I did not know.

Haruki Murakami

Eye, Hands, Body

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It is also the pardonable vanity of lonely people everywhere to assume that they have no counterparts.

John le Carre

Vanity, People, Assuming

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I am a drifter, and as lonely as that can be, it is also remarkably freeing. I will never define myself in terms of anyone else.

David Levithan

Drifters, Term

David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.10, Egmont UK

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Loneliness and solitude are two different things. When you are lonely, it is easy to delude yourself into believing that you are on the right path. Solitude is better for us, as it means being alone without feeling lonely. But eventually it is best to find a person, the person who will be your mirror. Remember, only in another person's heart can you truly see yourself and the presence of God within you.

Elif Safak

Loneliness, Believe, Heart

"The Forty Rules of Love". Book by Elif Safak, March 2009.

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