Lonely Quotes - Page 3

• The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

  Anne Frank

  Happiness, God, Nature

  Anne Frank (1954). “The Diary of Anne Frank”, Pan

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• Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swamps of the not-quite, the not-yet, and the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach. The world you desire can be won. It exists.. it is real.. it is possible.. it's yours.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Life, Bullying, Being Yourself

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• Its beautiful to be alone. To be alone does not mean to be lonely. it means the mind is not influenced and contaminated by society.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Beautiful, Mean, Mind

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• I didn't think I was in a morbid mood, but it appears I am. My mind goes round and round trying to figure things out, but I always come back to the same two things: Loneliness and Death. Life ends before we figure anything out, most importantly how not to be lonely. Solitude is fine. But feeling like you have no one to love - abject lonliness - is not alright.

  Jonathan Ames

  Loneliness, Thinking, Two

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• If you don't like the scene you're in, if you're unhappy, if you're lonely, if you don't feel that things are happening, change your scene. Paint a new backdrop.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Unhappy, Paint, Scene

  LEO BUSCAGLIA, PH.D. (1982). “LIVING, LOVING & LEARNING”

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• At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Love, Life, Dream

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• Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment.

  Haruki Murakami

  Friendship, Disappointment, Loneliness

  FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Nov 09, 2015

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• The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

  Mark Twain

  Self Esteem, Loneliness, Love Yourself

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• You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.

  Wayne Dyer

  Confidence, Clever, Loneliness

  "Dr. Wayne Dyer Lives On" by Stephanie Seibel, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Nothing makes us so lonely as our secrets.

  Paul Tournier

  Love, Dream, Loneliness

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• If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

  Jules Renard

  Funny Inspirational, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  "To Be Young, Gifted and Black : Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words" by Lorraine Hansberry, (p. 137), 1969.

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• The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

  Cyril Connolly

  Love, Dream, Fear

  "Phil Spector: What I've Learned", www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Loneliness is proof that your innate search for connection is intact.

  Martha Beck

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Connections

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• Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it's not because they enjoy solitude. It's because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.

  Jodi Picoult

  Inspirational, Life, Disappointment

  Jodi Picoult (2009). “My Sister's Keeper - Movie Tie-In: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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• This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.

  Waylon Jennings

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Cutting

  Song: I Tremble For You, 1967

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• Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

  May Sarton

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Self

  May Sarton (2014). “Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel”, p.92, Open Road Media

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• I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Men

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• If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Inspirational, Wisdom, Philosophy

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• People who lead a lonely existence always have something on their minds that they are eager to talk about.

  Anton Chekhov

  Loneliness, Being Alone, People

  Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1988). “A doctor's visit: short stories”, Bantam Classics

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• The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself.

  Mary Balogh

  Loneliness, Faces, Worst

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• The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Single, Loneliness, Companionship

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• A lonely man is a lonesome thing, a stone, a bone, a stick, a receptacle for Gilbey's gin, a stooped figure sitting at the edge of a hotel bed, heaving copious sighs like the autumn wind.

  John Cheever

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Autumn

  1966 Collected in The Journals,'The Sixties'.

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• Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love.

  George Eliot

  Sympathy, Goodbye, Farewell

  George Eliot (1873). “Wit and Wisdom of George Eliot”, p.188

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