Lonely Quotes - Page 26

• Golf without Jones would be like France without Paris: leaderless, lightless and lonely.

  Herbert Wind

  Golf, Paris, Would Be

  Herbert Warren Wind (2016). “The Story of American Golf: Its Champions and Championships, 1888–1975”, p.190, Open Road Media

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• If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more success. If you forget about others' rights and neglect others' welfare, ultimately you will be very lonely.

  Dalai Lama

  Motivation, Helping Others, Rights

  The Dalai Lama (2009). “Worlds in Harmony”, p.75, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Whenever you are blue or lonely or stricken by some humiliating thing you did, the cure and the hope is in caring about other people.

  Diane Sawyer

  Inspiring, Caring, Blue

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• I've seen fire and I've seen rain I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend But I always thought that I'd see you again.

  James Taylor

  Rain, Grieving, Fire

  "Fire and Rain" (song) (1969)

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• Saint George killed the last dragon, and he was called a hero for it. I've never seen a dragon, and I wish he would have left at least one. Saint Patrick made a name for himself by running the snakes out of Ireland, leaving the place vulnerable to rodent infestation. This business of making saints out of men who exterminate their fellow creatures has got to stop. All I'm saying is, it's starting to get a little lonely up here at the top of the food chain.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Running, Hero, Men

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• [Albert] Schweitzer thus carved out his own path through the first half of this century, a lonely and learned giant amidst the hordes of noisy and shallow theological pygmies.

  N. T. Wright

  Sarcastic, Giants, Half

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• By rights, satire is a lonely and introspective occupation, for nobody can describe a fool to the life without much patient self-inspection.

  Frank Moore Colby

  Sarcasm, Rights, Self

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• People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Stay Strong, Perseverance, Giving Up

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Mrs. Warren's Profession”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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• SO the richest are often the poorest as this saying goes, "Loneliness is the ultimate poverty"

  Abigail Van Buren

  Loneliness, Poverty, Poorest

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• Blow out, you bugles, over the rich Dead! There's none of these so lonely and poor of old, But, dying, has made us rarer gifts than gold.

  Rupert Brooke

  Memorial Day, Military, Blow

  New Numbers no. 4 (1914) "The Dead"

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• You could be married and bored or single and lonely. Ain't no happiness nowhere.

  Chris Rock

  Being Single, Bored, Married

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• No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don't.

  Stephen King

  Change, Blue, People Changing

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.654, Anchor

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• What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Years, Long

  Albert Einstein (2013). “Einstein on Politics: His Private Thoughts and Public Stands on Nationalism, Zionism, War, Peace, and the Bomb”, p.234, Princeton University Press

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• Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

  Jimmy Cannon

  Christmas, Holiday, Rejected

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• Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will occur along life's way and all that is required is the willingness to act when the time comes. The needs of the neighbor, especially those of the weak and downtrodden, the victimized and the persecuted, the ill and the lonely, will become abundantly evident.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Opportunity, Suffering

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• He clasps the crag with crooked hands;
  Close to the sun in lonely lands,
  Ringed with the azure world, he stands.
  The wrinkled sea beneath him crawls;
  He watches from his mountain walls,
  And like a thunderbolt he falls.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Wall, Fall, Animal

  "The Eagle" l. 1 (1851)

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• Often have I sighed to measure By myself a lonely pleasure,- Sighed to think I read a book, Only read, perhaps, by me.

  William Wordsworth

  Loneliness, Book, Thinking

  William Wordsworth (1859). “The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Etc”, p.338

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• Since every mortal power of Coleridge Was frozen at its marvellous source, The rapt one, of the godlike forehead, The heaven-eyed creature sleeps in earth: And Lamb, the frolic and the gentle, Has vanished from his lonely hearth.

  William Wordsworth

  Loneliness, Sleep, Power

  'Extempore Effusion upon the Death of James Hogg' (1835)

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• And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Loneliness, World

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

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• Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.

  William Butler Yeats

  Cheer, Loneliness, Fighting

  "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death" l. 9 (1919)

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• In misery's darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan, And lonely want retir'd to die.

  Samuel Johnson

  Loneliness, Care, Want

  Samuel Johnson (1787). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with His Life, and Notes on His Lives of the Poets, by Sir John Hawkins, Knt. In Eleven Volumes ...”, p.366

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• "I fly from pleasure," said the prince, "because pleasure has ceased to please; I am lonely because I am miserable, and am unwilling to cloud with my presence the happiness of others."

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Loneliness, Clouds

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy (1837). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL. D.: With an Essay on His Life and Genius /c by Arthur Murphy, Esq”, p.458

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• Turn, gentle Hermit of the Dale, And guide my lonely way To where yon taper cheers the vale With hospitable ray.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Cheer, Loneliness, Rays

  Oliver Goldsmith (1841). “Goldsmith's miscellaneous works”, p.5

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• Weeded and worn the ancient thatch Upon the lonely moated grange.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Loneliness, Ancient, Worn

  'Mariana' (1830) st. 1.

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• I'm very lonely now, Mary, For the poor make no new friends; But oh they love the better still The few our Father sends!

  Hariot Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava

  Love, Father, Loneliness

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