Lonely Quotes - Page 24

• If love is universal, no one can be left out.

  Deepak Chopra

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Love Is

  Twitter post from Mar 23, 2014

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• My life is spent in perpetual alternation between two rhythms,
  the rhythm of attracting people for fear I may be lonely
  and the rhythm of trying to get rid of them
  because I know that I am bored.

  C. E. M. Joad

  Being Alone, Two, People

  In Observer 12 Dec. 1948, p. 2

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• So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Albatross

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1858). “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”, p.50

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• One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

  Vincent Van Gogh

  Sad, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Letter to Theo van Gogh from Cuesmes, www.vangoghletters.org. June 22-24, 1880.

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• I'm a part of a team, and I'm no better or any worse than any single player on this team. That's the approach I've always had and will continue to have. It's not about me. It has never been all about me. If it had, this would have been a really lonely journey.

  Mia Hamm

  Fitness, Team, Player

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• I have always sought to guide the future-but it is very lonely sometimes trying to play God.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Future, Play, Trying

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• God has no other hands than ours. If the sick are to be healed, it is our hands that will heal them. If the lonely and the frightened are to be comforted, it is our embrace, not God's, that will comfort them.

  Dorothee Solle

  God, Healing, Hands

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• How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  God, Loneliness, Tired

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.92, BookBaby

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• The great end of all human industry is the attainment of happiness. For this were arts invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained, and societies modeled, by the most profound wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the lonely savage, who lies exposed to the inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand object of his being.

  David Hume

  Happiness, Art, Lying

  David Hume (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)”, p.664, Delphi Classics

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• Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.

  Dan Harmon

  Hilarious

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• One ceases to be lonely only in recollection; perhaps that is why people read history.

  John Andrew Rice

  People, History, Recollection

  John Andrew Rice (2014). “I Came Out of the Eighteenth Century”, p.112, Univ of South Carolina Press

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• If I were to choose the sights, the sounds, the fragrances I most would want to see and hear and smell--among all the delights of the open world--on a final day on earth, I think I would choose these: the clear, ethereal song of a white-throated sparrow singing at dawn; the smell of pine trees in the heat of the noon; the lonely calling of Canada geese; the sight of a dragon-fly glinting in the sunshine; the voice of a hermit thrush far in a darkening woods at evening; and--most spiritual and moving of sights--the white cathedral of a cumulus cloud floating serenely in the blue of the sky.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Spiritual, Song, Nature

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• We listen too much to the telephone and too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing.

  Andre Kostelanetz

  Nature, Wind, Sound

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• Or if the hypothesis were offered us of a world in which Messrs. Fourier's and Bellamy's and Morris's Utopias should all be outdone, and millions kept permanently happy on the one simple condition that a certain lost soul on the far-off edge of things should lead a life of lonely torment, what except a specifical and independent sort of emotion can it be which would make us immediately feel, even though an impulse arose within us to clutch at the happiness so offered, how hideous a thing would be its enjoyment when deliberately accepted as the fruit of such a bargain?

  William James

  Independent, Science, Simple

  William James (2012). “The Will to Believe and Human Immortality”, p.133, Courier Corporation

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• Being single isn't the cause of loneliness, and marriage is not necessarily the cure. There are many lonely married people as well.

  Renee Jones

  Marriage, Single, Loneliness

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• The man who boasts that he habitually tells the truth is simply a man with no respect for it. It is not a thing to be thrown about loosely, like small change; it is something to be cherished and hoarded and disbursed only when absolutely necessary. The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in Hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Truth, Lying, Men

  1922 Prejudices, 3rd series, ch.14.

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• The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-dump and a soul roasting in hell.

  H. L. Mencken

  Truth, Honesty, Men

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.15, Vintage

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• Isn't it funny that at Christmas something in you gets so lonely for - I don't know what exactly, but it's something that you don't mind so much not having at other times.

  Kate Langley Bosher

  Christmas, Mind, Funny Christmas

  Kate Langley Bosher (2005). “How It Happened”, p.15, 1st World Publishing

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• In the end, who among us does not choose to be a little less right to be a little less lonely.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Doe, Littles

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• I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence, for no lonely bird would sing Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn, Nor lowly hedge nor solitary thorn;- Shaking his languid locks all dewy bright With tangled gossamer that fell by night, Pearling his coronet of golden corn.

  Thomas Hood

  Autumn, Night, Tangled

  Thomas Hood (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Hood (Illustrated)”, p.296, Delphi Classics

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• They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, Science, Past

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.353, W. W. Norton & Company

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• But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

  Frank Bruno

  Sports, Athlete, Guy

  "Q: Did you feel suicidal before you were sectioned? A: Nah, I'm not that brave or clever. I wouldn't know how to tie a rope, know what I mean?". October 23, 2005.

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• And gentle winds and waters near, make music to the lonely ear.

  Lord Byron

  Wind, Lyric Poetry, Water

  Lord Byron (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Lord Byron (Illustrated)”, p.948, Delphi Classics

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• If your purse no longer bulges
  and you've lost your golden treasure,
  If times you think you're lonely
  and have hungry grown for pleasure,
  Don't sit by your hearth and grumble,
  don't let mind and spirit harden.
  If it's thrills of joy you wish for
  get to work and plant a garden!
  
  If it's drama that you sigh for,
  plant a garden and you'll get it
  You will know the thrill of battle
  fighting foes that will beset it
  If you long for entertainment and
  for pageantry most glowing,
  Plant a garden and this summer spend
  your time with green things growing.

  Edgar Guest

  Summer, Spring, Drama

  Edgar Albert Guest (1916). “A Heap O' Livin' Along Life's Highway”

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• The thorn tree just began to bud
  And greening stained the sheltering hedge,
  An many a violet beside the wood
  Peeped blue between the withered sedge;
  The sun gleamed warm the bank beside,
  'Twas pleasant wandering out a while
  Neath nestling bush to lonely hide,
  Or bend a musings o'er a stile.

  John Clare

  Spring, Blue, Tree

  John Clare (2012). “Careless Rambles by John Clare: A Selection of His Poems Chosen and Illustrated by Tom Pohrt”, p.71, Counterpoint Press

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