Lonely Quotes - Page 35

• The writer works in a lonely way.

  Irwin Shaw

  Literature, Way, Comeback

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• Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

  Tatjana Patitz

  Nice, Sometimes

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• You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.

  Guy Forget

  Sports, Littles, Individual

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• It's a vast, lonely, forbidding expanse of nothing rather like clouds and clouds of pumice stone. And it certainly does not appear to be a very inviting place to live or work.

  Frank Borman

  Clouds, Doe, Stones

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

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• Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

  Nancy Astor

  Pioneers, May, Figures

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• On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and to - I mean, writing is a lonely business.

  Donna Tartt

  Writing, Mean, Hands

  "Author Donna Tartt discusses her literary career and her latest novel, The Little Friend". "Talk of the Nation" with Lynn Neary, www.languageisavirus.com. November 5, 2002.

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• Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

  Adrian Belew

  Luxury, Band, World

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• New York is tough on lonely people.

  Michael Bergin

  New York, People, Tough

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• She's lonely and wounded and very vulnerable and it really is a story about people at the heart of it all.

  Emmy Rossum

  Heart, People, Stories

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• Our hearts are breaking... We are lonely and deserted, sad and sick.

  Alexander Murdoch Mackay

  Heart, Sick, Missionary

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• Heat lingers
  As days are still long;
  Early mornings are cool
  While autumn is still young.
  Dew on the lotus
  Scatters pure perfume;
  Wind on the bamboos
  Gives off a gentle tinkling.
  I am idle and lonely,
  Lying down all day,
  Sick and decayed;
  No one asks for me;
  Thin dusk before my gates,
  Cassia blossoms inch deep.

  Bai Juyi

  Morning, Lying, Autumn

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• Honestly, I have had to live like a high priestess in this show. It is a very, very lonely life. When you work the way I work - that means hard - there's no time for play.

  Ann Miller

  Mean, Play, Hard Life

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• A lot of people are lonely. A lot of people are lonely even when they're surrounded by other people.

  Sloane Crosley

  People

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• A yellow fog swirls past the window-pane
  As night descends upon the fabled street:
  A lonely hansom splashes through the rain,
  And ghostly gas lamps fail at twenty feet.
  Here though the world explode, these two survive,
  And it is always eighteen ninety-five.

  Vincent Starrett

  Rain, Past, Night

  Vincent Starrett, Peter Ruber (1995). “More Books Alive: New Treasures from a Master Literary Detective”, Battered Silicon Dispatch Box

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• Poems infatuated with their own smarts and detached from any emotional grounding can leave the reader feeling lonely, empty and ashamed for having expected more. Like icy adolescents, such poetry is more interested in commiserating than acknowledging that feelings — the sentiments that make us susceptible to sentimentality — actually exist.

  Tracy K. Smith

  Smart, Emotional, Feelings

  "Wipe That Smirk Off Your Poem". www.nytimes.com. March 16, 2015.

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• There is a city myth that country life was isolated and lonely; the truth is that farmers and their families then had a richer social life than they have now. They enjoyed a society organic, satisfying and whole, not mixed and thinned with the life of town, city and nation as it now is.

  Rose Wilder Lane

  Country, Cities, Towns

  Rose Wilder Lane (1985). “Old Home Town”, p.1, U of Nebraska Press

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• In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a dream by day To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray Turned back upon the past? That holy dream- that holy dream, While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam A lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro' storm and night, So trembled from afar- What could there be more purely bright In Truth's day-star?

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Life, Dream, Stars

  Edgar Allan Poe, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Nathaniel Parker Willis, James Russell Lowell (1853). “The works of the late Edgar Allan Poe”, p.105

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• One thing I always think about in making a market, and it again is something I have learned from Sam [Palmisano] as well, he always says, "Be first and be lonely."

  Ginni Rometty

  Inspiring, Women, Firsts

  "IBM's Ginni Rometty: Growth and comfort do not coexist". Interview with Jessi Hempel, fortune.com. October 5, 2011.

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• If you go far enough out you can see the Universe itself, all the billion light years summed up time only as a flash, just as lonely, as distant as a star on a June night if you go far enough out. And still, my friend, if you go far enough out you are only at the beginning - of yourself.

  Rolf Jacobsen

  Time, Stars, Night

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• Trust Me. Life is not worth living feeling sad and down and lonely. Always be true to who you are.

  Jessie J

  Feelings, Feeling Sad, Down And

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• The unicorn was white, with hoofs of silver and graceful horn of pearl... The glorious thing about him was his eye. There was a faint bluish furrow down each side of his nose, and this led to the eye sockets, and surrounded them in a pensive shade. The eyes, circled by this sad and beautiful darkness, were so sorrowful, lonely, gentle and nobly tragic, that they killed all other emotions except love.

  T. H. White

  Beautiful, Eye, White

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• For every finish-line tape a runner breaks -- complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras -- there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.

  Grete Waitz

  Success, Sports, Cheer

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• The fleeting hour of life of those who love the hills is quickly spent, but the hills are eternal. Always there will be the lonely ridge, the dancing beck, the silent forest; always there will be the exhilaration of the summits. These are for the seeking, and those who seek and find while there is still time will be blessed both in mind and body.

  Alfred Wainwright

  Inspirational, Life, Beauty

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• What you really have to do, if you want to be creative, is to unlearn all the teasing and censoring that you've experienced throughout your life. If you are truly a creative person, you know that feeling insecure and lonely is par for the course. You can't have it both ways: You can't be creative and conform, too. You have to recognize that what makes you different also makes you creative.

  Arno Allan Penzias

  Encouragement, Insecure, Creative

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• Since my baby left me, I've found a new place to dwell, down at the end of Lonely Street at Heartbreak Hotel.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Baby, Ends

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