Lonely Quotes - Page 34

• Not only two years, but even until twenty, two hundred, two thousand yearswe always have to be together.”“because I have the members, I have never felt lonely.

  Yoochun

  Years, Two, Together

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• I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely... I could have used a bit more solitude.

  Andrew Greeley

  Regret, Taken, Decision

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• Alone, lonely people talk to themselves. In company, they often continue.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Company, Lonely People

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• This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it.

  Scott Carpenter

  Flower, Earth, Planets

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• I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Wisdom, Thinking, Soul

  Friedrich Nietzsche, Maudemarie Clark, Brian Leiter (1997). “Nietzsche: Daybreak: Thoughts on the Prejudices of Morality”, p.201, Cambridge University Press

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• I was never a lonely child who sat looking at the rain sliding down the window.

  Deborah Moggach

  Children, Rain, Window

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• The spectacle of advertising creates images of false beauty so suave and so impossible to attain that you will hurt inside and never even know where the hurt comes from, and in all pictures now the famous people have already begun to look lost and lonely.

  Robert Montgomery

  Hurt, People, Looks

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• I need family support close because when you go to work, they are long days and it can get lonely.

  Joe Lando

  Long, Support, Needs

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• Speaking up for America has become a lonely ordeal.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Speaking Up, America, Ordeals

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• There's no such thing as a crowded battlefield. Battlefields are lonely places.

  Alfred M. Gray

  Military, Marine Corps, Crowded Places

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• The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas.

  Theodore Zeldin

  Art, Begging You, Ideas

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• Writing fiction is a solitary occupation but not really a lonely one. The writer's head is mobbed with characters, images and language, making the creative process something like eavesdropping at a party for which you've had the fun of drawing up the guest list. Loneliness usually doesn't set in until the work is finished, and all the partygoers and their imagined universe have disappeared.

  Hilma Wolitzer

  Fun, Loneliness, Party

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• To a hikikomori, winter is painful because everything feels cold, frozen over, and lonely. To a hikikomori, spring is also painful because everyone is in a good mood and therefore enviable. Summer, of course, is especially painful.

  Tatsuhiko Takimoto

  Summer, Spring, Winter

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• History repeats itself only in that, from afar, we all seem to lead exactly the same life. We are all born; we all spend time here on earth; we all die. But up close, we have each walked down our own separate paths. We have stood at our own lonely crossroads. We have touched the lives of others at crucial points, for better or for worse. In the end, each of us has lived a unique life story, astounding and complicated, a story that could never be repeated.

  Edward Bloor

  Unique, Earth, Afar

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• I am a believer in punctuality though it makes me very lonely

  E. V. Lucas

  Punctuality, Believer

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• There’s too much beauty upon this earth
  For lonely men to bear.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Men, Earth, Too Much

  Richard Le Gallienne (1913). “The lonely dancer: and other poems”

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• Loneliness is the prison of the human spirit. When we are lonely, we pace back and forth in small, shut-in worlds.

  John Powell

  Loneliness, Pace, World

  John Powell, Loretta Brady (1985). “Will the real me please stand up?: so we can all get to know you! : 25 guidelines for good communication”, Thomas More Pr

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• Lonely people keep up a ceaseless flow of commentary on themselves.

  Mason Cooley

  People, Flow, Commentary

  "City Aphorisms: First Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1984.

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• A lifetime of lonely regret or happiness with some pain along the way.

  Melissa Nathan

  Pain, Regret, Way

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• Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

  Louis L'Amour

  Writing, Adventure, Dark

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• I'm so lonely I don't even want to be with myself anymore.

  Dido Armstrong

  Want, So Lonely

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• I discovered that it was a lonely world being a solo artist. Then I started working with another solo artist, Rod Stewart, and he used to tell me how lonely he was!

  Andrew Taylor

  Artist, World, Used

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• Nothing big ever came from being small.

  William J. Clinton

  Being Sad, Being Lonely, Bigs

  "Schneider's Political Oscars" by Bill Schneider, www.cnn.com. March 24, 1997.

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• One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence.

  George Orwell

  Being Sad, Atheism, Defeat

  George Orwell, Peter Davison (2013). “George Orwell: A Life in Letters”, p.448, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy.

  Buck Owens

  Busy

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