Lonely Quotes - Page 25

• In our world of big names, curiously, our true heroes tend to be anonymous. In this life of illusion and quasi-illusion, the person of solid virtues who can be admired for something more substantial than his well-knownness often proves to be the unsung hero: the teacher, the nurse, the mother, the honest cop, the hard worker at lonely, underpaid, unglamorous, unpublicized jobs.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Mother, Teacher, Jobs

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1962). “The Image or What Happened to the American Dream”

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• I thought I had friends but in the end n*iggaz dies lonely.

  Tupac Shakur

  Rapper, Ends, Dies

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• ...but out of the desert, from the dry places and the dreadful suns, come the cruel children of the lonely God; the real Unitarians who with scimitar in hand have laid waste the world. For it is not well for God to be alone.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Children, Real, Hands

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.102, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm still amazed at how my mother emerged from her lonely early life as such an affectionate and levelheaded woman.

  Hillary Clinton

  Mom, Mother, Affectionate

  Hillary Rodham Clinton (2004). “Living History”, p.2, Simon and Schuster

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• He who is great must make humility his base. He who is high must make lowliness his foundation. Thus, princes and kings in speaking of themselves use the terms "lonely," "friendless," "of small account." Is not this making humility their base?

  Laozi

  Kings, Humility, Foundation

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• At length his lonely cot appears in view,
  Beneath the shelter of an aged tree;
  Th' expectant wee-things, toddling, stacher thro'
  To meet their Dad, wi' flichterin noise an' glee.

  Robert Burns

  Dad, Home, Views

  Robert Burns (1838). “The Works of Robert Burns: With an Account of His Life, and Criticism on His Writings. To which are Prefixed, Some Observations on the Character and Condition of the Scottish Peasantry”, p.40

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• When I'm feeling sad, or lonely, and I don't know what I'm doing and I don't know where I'm going, I imagine the Cool Awesome Future Version of Myself just telling my present self, "It's okay. You just gotta grab that giraffe by the ears and ride it on out."

  Jenna Marbles

  Being Yourself, Feelings, Feeling Sad

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• Creativity is essentially a lonely art. An even lonelier struggle. To some a blessing. To others a curse. It is in reality the ability to reach inside yourself and drag forth from your very soul an idea.

  Lou Dorfsman

  Life, Beautiful, Art

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• It is better to be lonely than allow people who are not going anywhere keep you from your destiny.

  Joel Osteen

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• To the artist He is the one altogether lovely, and to the educator He is the master teacher. To the philosopher He is the wisdom of God, and to the lonely He is a brother; to the sorrowful, a comforter to the bereaved, the resurrection and the life. And to the sinner he is the Lamb of God who takes away the sin from the world.

  John Gerstner

  Christian, Teacher, Jesus

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• True prayer is a lonely business.

  Samuel Chadwick

  Prayer

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• There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!

  Mark Twain

  Dream, Loneliness, Race

  The Mysterious Stranger ch. 11 (1916)

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• Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Loneliness, Discovery, Keys

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1981). “The Portable Emerson: New Edition”, p.282, Penguin

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• It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.

  Thomas Reed

  Loneliness, Men, Political

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• This is the duty of our generation as we enter the twenty-first century - solidarity with the weak, the persecuted, the lonely, the sick, and those in despair. It is expressed by the desire to give a noble and humanizing meaning to a community in which all members will define themselves not by their own identity but by that of others.

  Elie Wiesel

  Loneliness, Responsibility, Our Generation

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• I'm so lost without you. Feeling lonely, scared & cold. I'm so lost without you. Tell me baby, when are you coming home?

  Roch Voisine

  Baby, Lost Love, Home

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• If thou fill thy brain with Boston and New York, with fashion and covetousness, and wilt stimulate thy jaded senses with wine and French coffee, thou shalt find no radiance of wisdom in the lonely waste of the pinewoods.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Fashion, New York, Coffee

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1425, Delphi Classics

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• I have never felt so lonely as on a golf course in the midst of a championship with thousands of people around, especially when things began to go wrong and the crowds started wandering away.

  Bobby Jones

  Golf, People, Crowds

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• The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry
  Of bugles going by.
  And my lonely spirit thrills
  To see the frosty asters like a smoke upon the hills.

  Bliss Carman

  Autumn, Asters, Spirit

  Bliss Carman (1931). “Bliss Carman's Poems”, McClelland & Stewart

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• We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will give us the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship.

  Sherry Turkle

  Motivation, Inspiration, Technology

  "Are We Plugged-In, Connected, But Alone?". 'TED Radio Hour' with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. February 26, 2013.

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• I say that they can be solved; there is no problem that cannot be, but faith is necessary. Think of the faith I had to have eighteen years ago, a single man on a lonely path. Yet I have come to leadership of the German people... Life is hard for many, but it is hardest if you are unhappy and have no faith. Have faith. Nothing can make me change my own belief.

  Adolf Hitler

  Men, Thinking, Years

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• Just because someone is single doesn't mean they're lonely. Some people are in relationships and they've forgotten what happiness is.

  Drake

  Cute, Mean, People

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• You learn you can do your best even when its hard, even when you're tired and maybe hurting a little bit. It feels good to show some courage.

  Joe Namath

  Inspirational, Sports, Volleyball

  Joe Namath (1987). “Football for Young Players and Parents”, Fireside

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• A life without a lonely place, that is, a life without a quiet center, easily becomes destructive. When we cling to the results of our actions as our only way of self-identifiction, then we become possessive and defensive and tend to look at our fellow human beings more as enemies to be kept at a distance than as friends with whom we share the gifts of life.

  Henri Nouwen

  Life, Distance, Self

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• I think people tend to see the bigger point, which is maybe not fitting in and feeling like you didn't have the childhood that you expected you would have, or that you felt lonely or struggled with drugs and alcohol or just that you were able to achieve your dreams.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Dream, Thinking, People

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