Lonely Quotes - Page 23

• Join me? Patting the spot beside him, he inclined his head. “Pretty please? I’m lonely all by myself over here.

  J. Lynn

  Spots, Please, I'm Lonely

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• I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

  Ruta Sepetys

  Book, Character, Interesting

  Ruta Sepetys (2013). “Out of The Easy”, p.24, Penguin

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• You shy, Francesca?” Javier asks me later on. I shake my head. “Not really.” I’m just sad, I want to say. And I’m lonely.

  Melina Marchetta

  Shy, Want, Ask Me

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.40, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• In our hearts... there must abide some pity for those people who have always felt themselves to be separate from even their most familiar surroundings, those people who either are foreigners or who suffer a singular point of view that makes them feel as if they’re foreigners - even in their native lands. In our hearts... there also abides a certain suspicion that such people need to feel set apart from their society. But people who initiate loneliness are no less lonely than those who are suddenly surprised by loneliness, nor are they undeserving of our pity.

  John Irving

  Loneliness, Heart, Views

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• It made her eyes fill up with tears, and she for a few more minutes starting it over, replaying it, watching his lips say the words: "We can be lonely together.

  Rachel Caine

  Eye, Tears, Together

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• Sure, he was lonely. Sure, they had a lot in common. Sure, he was attracted to her, and it was clear she felt the same about him.

  Tim LaHaye

  Common, Clear, Felt

  Tim LaHaye, Jerry B. Jenkins (2011). “Tribulation Force: The Continuing Drama of Those Left Behind”, p.34, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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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. You feel it's something between you and the body. You feel it's a battle you will never win . . . and yet you fight it day after day, and it wears you down. Even if you try to ignore it, the energy it takes to ignore it will exhaust you.

  David Levithan

  Fighting, Winning, Battle

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

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• My brain sometimes departs from the agreed-upon reality, and my private reality is a very lonely place. But in the end, I'm not sure I wish I'd never gone there.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Reality, Brain, Wish

  Marya Hornbacher (2008). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.326, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• We can be lonely together

  Rachel Caine

  Together

  Rachel Caine (2013). “Fall of Night: The Morganville Vampires”, p.34, Penguin

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• I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

  Haruki Murakami

  All Alone, Aomame

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• A lonely, quiet person has observations and experiences that are at once both more indistinct and more penetrating than those of one more gregarious; his thoughts are weightier, stranger, and never without a tinge of sadness. . . . Loneliness fosters that which is original, daringly and bewilderingly beautiful, poetic. But loneliness also fosters that which is perverse, incongruous, absurd, forbidden.

  Thomas Mann

  Beautiful, Loneliness, Sadness

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• That was the biggest problem with getting used to someone, she thought. You were lonely when they weren't there.

  Nora Roberts

  Problem, Used

  J. D. Robb, Nora Roberts (2011). “J. D. Robb In Death Collection”, p.207, Penguin

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• Once, I had a dream of fame. Generally, even then, I was lonely.

  David Markson

  Dream, Fame, I Had A Dream

  David Markson (1988). “Wittgenstein's Mistress”

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• I had no answer to those questions, only hope. With absolutely no one to turn to, no Mikey, no Axe, no Danny, I have to face the final battle by myself, maybe lonely, maybe desolate, maybe against formidable odds. But I was not giving up. I had only one Teammate. And He moved, as ever, in mysterious ways. But I was a Christian, and He had somehow saved me from a thousand AK-47 bullets on that day. No one had shot me, which was well nigh beyond all comprehension.

  Marcus Luttrell

  Christian, Giving Up, Odds

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• There is a ghost here. A lonely, heartbroken spirit. The ghost of everything that could've been and never was.

  Jennifer Donnelly

  Heartbroken, Spirit, Ghost

  Jennifer Donnelly (2014). “The Tea Rose”, p.554, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Brave, Individual, Have Courage

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.114, Westminster John Knox Press

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• I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life.

  George Orwell

  Children, Ambition, Thinking

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In me there is darkness, But with You there is light; I am lonely, but You do not leave me; I am feeble in heart, but with You there is help; I am restless, but with You there is peace. In me there is bitterness, but with You there is patience; I do not understand Your ways, But You know the way for me.” “Lord Jesus Christ, You were poor And in distress, a captive and forsaken as I am. You know all man’s troubles; You abide with me When all men fail me; You remember and seek me; It is Your will that I should know You And turn to You. Lord, I hear Your call and follow; Help me.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Jesus, Heart, Men

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• The exhilaration was hard to explain. It was a lonely feeling — a somehow melancholy feeling. He was outside; he passed on the wings of the wind, and none of the people beyond the brightly lighted squares of their windows saw him. They were inside, inside where there was light and warmth. They didn't know he had passed them; only he knew. It was a secret thing.

  Stephen King

  Squares, Light, Wind

  Stephen King (2016). “It”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

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• Hold her for me. Hold her tight. Don't let her be lonely. Don't let her hurt. Please.

  Abbi Glines

  Hurt, Please

  Abbi Glines (2013). “Simple Perfection: A Novel”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• It was solitude, but it was solitude that wasn't lonely. Solitude that could sort things out. And he hadn't had that in ages.

  Patrick Ness

  Solitude, Age

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• Writing a book is a very lonely business. You are totally cut off from the rest of the world, submerged in your obsessions and memories.

  Mario Vargas Llosa

  Memories, Loneliness, Book

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• Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient.

  Rumi

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Feelings

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.55, Lulu.com

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• I don't like to be labeled as lonely just because I am alone.

  Delta Burke

  Single, Being Alone, Being Single

  "5 Things to Love About Being Single" by Whitney Caudill, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 23, 2013.

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• I am a lover without a lover. I am lovely and lonely and I belong deeply to myself.

  Warsan Shire

  Loneliness, Being Single, Being Alone

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