Lonely Quotes - Page 31

• Nobody stood by Jesus. Maybe nobody will stand by you. It's a lonely life, but it's a glorious life.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Jesus, Glorious Life, Christ

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• The possibility for rich relationships exists all around you - you simply have to open your eyes, open your mouth and most importantly, open your heart.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Heart, Eye, Mouths

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• We could have been happy. I know that, and it is perhaps the hardest thing to know.

  Ally Condie

  Hardest, Knows, Could Have Been

  Ally Condie (2011). “Matched”, p.217, Penguin

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• Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Spring, Loneliness

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

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• Feelings are you inner guidance system-your emotional compass. When you allow this compass to direct your actions you build self-trust. When you feel hungry, you eat. When you feel tired, you rest. When you feel lonely, you reach out for a connection to others. In this most basic way your feelings link you with the wisest part of yourself. They tell you what you need to know at any given moment.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Spiritual, Tired, Emotional

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• One of the jobs of art is to inspire discussion, and Brokeback Mountain certainly has done that. It's like a window and a mirror. You're looking through a window at lives you may or may not have experienced. But it's a mirror in the sense we've all felt lonely; we're all, at one time or another, looking for and hoping for love.

  Diana Ossana

  Art, Jobs, Mirrors

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Moral progress is a process of isolation; the mountain tops are lonely.

  Austin O'Malley

  Progress, Mountain, Morality

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• There was a time-a lonely, lonely time-when salads were a pale and limp affair, relegated to the side of your plate, practically weeping. I think those dark days were also known as the '80s. -p.11

  Isa Chandra Moskowitz

  Dark, Thinking, Salad

  Isa Chandra Moskowitz (2011). “Appetite for Reduction: 125 Fast and Filling Low-Fat Vegan Recipes”, p.11, Da Capo Press

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• In liberation, you stand alone. You stand alone because you need no supports of any kind. You need no supports because you have realized that the very notion of a separate you no longer exists, that there is nothing to support, that the whole ego experience was a flimsy illusion. So you stand alone but are never, never lonely because everywhere you look, all you see is That, and you are That.

  Adyashanti

  Support, Ego, Needs

  "Stand Alone" by Adyashanti, www.adyashanti.org. 1997.

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• I want to love someone so selflessly that he would never even think about going away. I suppose that's what most people want. In fact, that's probably why we don't kill one another all the time. Everyone's just a little too lonely to risk it.

  Dennis Cooper

  Thinking, People, Risk

  Dennis Cooper (2007). “Guide”, p.91, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Photography is a very lonely medium. There’s a kind of beautiful loneliness in voyeurism. And that’s why I’m a photographer.

  Alec Soth

  Beautiful, Photography, Loneliness

  "Dismantling My Career: A Conversation with Alec Soth". Interview with Bartholomew Ryan, walkerart.org. August 31, 2010.

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• We are social beings who make communities with an urgency, and it is a stern charge to make us take refuge in the lonely world of oneself. ...Racism attempts to occlude our cosmopolitanism (of the songs in and out of our bones), and it often appropriates our mild forms of xenophobia into its own virulent project. Difference among peoples is something that we negotiate in our everyday interactions, asking questions and being better informed of our mutual realities. To transform difference into the body is an act of bad faith, a denial of our shared nakedness.

  Vijay Prashad

  Song, Xenophobia, Reality

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• Unity is a spiritual quality. It's the sweet feelings of peace and purpose that come from belonging to a family. ... It's wanting the best for others as much as you want it for yourself. ... It's knowing that no one is out to harm you. It means you will never be lonely.

  Mary N. Cook

  Spiritual, Sweet, Mean

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• When I was younger, many of my romantic escapades were just a means of simply avoiding being by myself. I was afraid of feeling lonely, afraid I wouldn't know what to say to myself.

  Michael Zaslow

  Romantic, Mean, Feelings

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• Baseball is a team game but, at the same time, it's a very lonely game: unlike in soccer or basketball, where players roam around, in baseball everyone has their little plot of the field to tend. When the action comes to you, the spotlight is on you but no one can help you.

  Chad Harbach

  Basketball, Soccer, Baseball

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• Brothers and sisters, one of the great consolations of this Easter season is that because Jesus walked such a long, lonely path utterly alone, we do not have to do so. His solitary journey brought great company for our little version of that path…This Easter week and always, may we stand by Jesus Christ ‘at all times and in all things, and in all places that (we) may be in, even until death,’ for surely that is how He stood by us when it was unto death and when He had to stand entirely and utterly alone.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Jesus, Easter, Brother

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• Pray for the strength to walk the high road, which at times may be lonely but which will lead to peace and happiness and joy supernal.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Joy, May, Praying

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• Prom night can be a special night, if you let it be. I know you think it's for losers and something that popular kids do because they are boring people with porcelain hearts who don't know what it means to be lonely. But you're wrong. Prom is a chance for everyone to try oral sex. Go for it.

  Eugene Mirman

  Sex, Mean, Kids

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• Trying to be a professional dancer, paying my rent by posing nude for art classes, staring at people staring at me naked. Daring them to think of me as anything but a form they were trying to capture with their pencils and charcoal. I was defiant. Hell-bent on surviving. On making it. But it was hard and it was lonely, and I had to dare myself every day to keep going.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Art, Thinking, Class

  "Madonna: I was raped at knifepoint" by Shane Hickey, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2013.

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• Whoever reflects recognizes that there are empty and lonely spaces between one’s experiences.

  Jerome Bruner

  Space, Empty, Space Between

  Jerome Seymour Bruner (1979). “On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand”, p.60, Harvard University Press

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• Sometimes i feel lonely, but it's ok

  Tracey Emin

  Sometimes, Feels, Feeling Lonely

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• You have to be lonely to be a writer

  Edna O'Brien

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• And God stepped out on space, and He looked around and said: I'm lonely - I'll make me a world.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Space, World, Said

  "The Creation" l. 1 (1927)

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• The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--

  C. S. Lewis

  Men, Ideas, Lines

  C.S. Lewis (2005). “A Preface to Paradise Lost”, p.7, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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• Is there some meaning to this life?
  What purpose lies behind the strife?
  Whence do we come, where are we bound?
  These cold questions echo and resound
  through each day, each lonely night.
  We long to find the splendid light
  that will cast a revelatory beam
  upon the meaning of the human dream.
  Courage, love, friendship,
  compassion, and empathy
  lift us above the simple beasts
  and define humanity.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Dream, Lying

  Dean Koontz, “Strangers”

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