Lonely Quotes - Page 22

• Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed—although he doesn’t know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then you’re simply sad, or lonely, or just painfully aware, on a daily basis, of all the things you can never get back.

  Jonathan Tropper

  Believe, Years, Shapes

  Jonathan Tropper (2012). “One Last Thing Before I Go: A Novel”, p.8, Penguin

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• I felt very lonely when they were all there.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Felt

  Ernest Hemingway (2016). “A Farewell to Arms”, p.78, Hamilton Books

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• I'm not crazy or dangerous, just a bit eccentric and lonely.

  Emma Forrest

  Crazy, Eccentric, Dangerous

  Emma Forrest (2012). “Your Voice in My Head”, p.145, A&C Black

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• So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves.

  Pico Iyer

  Loneliness, People, Produce

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• Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing.

  Fred Rogers

  Loneliness, Solitude, Different

  Fred Rogers (1995). “You Are Special: Words of Wisdom for All Ages from a Beloved Neighbor”, p.122, Penguin

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• I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience.

  Mother Teresa

  Thinking, Feelings, Suffering

  Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers (Easyread Large Edition)”, p.5, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Sing to me," she said. "That would be valiant, to raise your voice in this dark, lonely place, and it will be useful as well. Sing to me, sing loudly-drown out my dreams, keep me from remembering whatever wants me to remember it. Sing to me, my lord prince, if it please you. It may not seem a hero's task, but I would be glad of it.

  Peter S. Beagle

  Dream, Hero, Dark

  Peter S. Beagle (2003). “A fine and private place: The last unicorn”

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• The words 'alone,' 'lonely,' and 'loneliness' are three of the most powerful words in the English language. Those words say that we are human; they are like the words hunger and thirst. But they are not words about the body, they are words about the soul.

  Donald Miller

  Powerful, Loneliness, Soul

  "Blue Like Jazz". Book by Donald Miller, 2003.

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• Oh, the places you'll go! There is fun to be done! There are points to be scored. There are games to be won. And the magical things you can do with that ball will make you the winning-est winner of all. Fame! You'll be as famous as famous can be, with the whole wide world watching you win on TV. Except when they don't Because, sometimes they won't. I'm afraid that some times you'll play lonely games too. Games you can't win 'cause you'll play against you.

  Dr. Seuss

  Fun, Winning, Games

  Theodor Seuss Geisel, “Oh, The Places You'll Go”

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• Did he understand, as those interminable minutes ticked by, that being alone is not the same as being lonely? That being alone is a neutral state… something that exists only in the mind, not in the world, and, like a virus, is unable to survive without a willing host?

  Garth Stein

  Mind, World, Viruses

  Garth Stein (2008). “The Art of Racing in the Rain”, Harper

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• Clary: "He wanted me to come with him. To join him and Sebastain. I guess he wants their evil little duo to be a little evil trio." She shrugged. "Maybe he's lonely. Sebastian cant be the greatest company. Magnus: we don't know that. He could be absolutely fantastic at Scrabble.

  Cassandra Clare

  Evil, Scrabble, Duos

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• There are those individuals who die for a cause, and we say they have made the ultimate sacrifice. We call them martyrs, and we never doubt their sincerity. Yet many others search their entire lives for something—or someone—worth dying for and this is very different. These are the lonely and the desperate, fearful that their lives have no meaning. They yearn for the bullet, if only someone else will pull the trigger.

  Ilsa J. Bick

  Sacrifice, Doubt, Dying

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• There's a certain kind of lonely man who rejects love, because he believes that anyone who offers it wouldn't be a lover worth having.

  Gene Wolfe

  Believe, Men, Lovers

  Gene Wolfe (2001). “There Are Doors”, p.277, Macmillan

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• And Goodness knows The Wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The Wicked die alone

  Stephen Schwartz

  Wicked, Goodness, Knows

  Song: No One Mourns The Wicked

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• A child blind from birth doesn't even know he's blind until someone tells him. Even then he has only the most academic idea of what blindness is; only the formerly sighted have a real grip on the thing. Ben Hanscom had no sense of being lonely because he had never been anything but. If the condition had been new, or more localized, he might have understood, but loneliness both encompassed his life and overreached it.

  Stephen King

  Children, Real, Loneliness

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.190, Simon and Schuster

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• You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why? Because they’re lonely. The past and memories are very lonely things. I don’t believe in God. Because he doesn’t have a fixed form. The past certainly does exist, even in a world where the future doesn’t have a fixed form. Even if it’s being colored by misunderstandings and delusions, a person’s past can’t be anything but the truth as long as he believes in it. If that’s what you base your actions or your way of life on, isn’t that like being god?

  Ryohgo Narita

  Running, Memories, Believe

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• I really was alone, and the only thing worse than being alone was having everyone else see how lonely you were

  Kami Garcia

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• My heart, the bird of the wilderness, has found its sky in your eyes. They are the cradle of the morning, they are the kingdom of the stars. My songs are lost in their depths. Let me but soar in that sky, in its lonely immensity. Let me but cleave its clouds and spread wings in its sunshine.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Song, Morning, Stars

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.75, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• I can be by myself because I'm never lonely, I'm simply alone, living in my heavily populated solitude, a harum-scarum of infinity and eternity, and Infinity and Eternity seem to take a liking to the likes of me.

  Bohumil Hrabal

  Solitude, Likes, Infinity

  Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• It is just dawn, daylight: that gray and lonely suspension filled with the peaceful and tentative waking of birds. The air, inbreathed, is like spring water. He breathes deep and slow, feeling with each breath himself diffuse in the natural grayness, becoming one with loneliness and quiet that has never known fury or despair. "That was all I wanted," he thinks, in a quiet and slow amazement. "That was all, for thirty years. That didn't seem to be a whole lot to ask in thirty years.

  William Faulkner

  Loneliness, Spring, Thinking

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• ...whoever you are, not matter how lonely the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh & exciting - over & over announcing your place in the family of things.

  Mary Oliver

  Nature, Imagination, Wild Geese

  Mary Oliver, “Wild Geese”

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• But at least this got Mouth thinking about how his loneliness wasn't unique. We all suffered. And I guess we all had good times too. Man - if every person who ever felt lonely killed himself, the world would be littered with corpses. And far lonelier.

  David Lubar

  Loneliness, Unique, Men

  David Lubar (2005). “Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie”, Dutton Childrens Books

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• It's a mystery to me We have a greed with which we have agreed You think you have to want more than you need Until you have it all you won't be free When you want more than you have You think you need And when you think more than you want Your thoughts begin to bleed I think I need to find a bigger place 'Cause when you have more than you think You need more space Society, you're a crazy breed I hope you're not lonely without me Society, crazy and deep I hope you're not lonely without me

  Eddie Vedder

  Crazy, Thinking, Space

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• Women: I liked the colors of their clothing; the way they walked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty in another face, totally and enchantingly female. They had it over us: they planned much better and were better organized. While men were watching professional football or drinking beer or bowling, they, the women, were thinking about us, concentrating, studying, deciding - whether to accept us, discard us, exchange us, kill us or whether simply to leave us. In the end it hardly mattered; no matter what they did, we ended up lonely and insane.

  Charles Bukowski

  Football, Drinking, Beer

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• It's lonely to say goodbye. Very lonely. Partings are the beginnings of new meetings. Beginnings happen because there are endings…Meetings. Beginnings. It's not too late…to believe in them after the fact.

  Natsuki Takaya

  Goodbye, Believe, Too Late

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