Lonely Quotes - Page 36

• Well you wave your hand and they scatter like crows
  They have nothing that will ever capture your heart
  They're just thorns without the rose
  Be careful of them in the dark
  Oh, if I was the one you chose to be your only one
  Oh baby can't you hear me now, can't you hear me now
  Will I see you tonight on a downtown train
  Every night it's just the same, you leave me lonely now

  Tom Waits

  Song, Baby, Heart

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• A man is an island, but the water is deep
  And the shore on the other side is ragged and steep
  To look for perfection is a lonely old ride
  It takes a whole lot of courage and a whole lot of pride
  When you look for independence and you get what you want
  How come you look back, thinking what have I done?
  But time and again, it dawns on me
  It's the price we pay for liberty
  I should have know, we all need a place to call home

  Joey Tempest

  Song, Home, Pride

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• I don't wanna say goodbye for the summer Knowing the love we'll miss Oh let us make a pledge to meet in September And seal it with a kiss Guess it's gonna be a cold lonely summer But I'll fill the emptiness I'll send you all my love every day in a letter Sealed with a kiss.

  Bobby Vinton

  Summer, Goodbye, Kissing

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• Humans are almost always lonely.

  Frank Herbert

  Humanity, Humans

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.29, Penguin

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• Since I found you no more cold nights and no more lonely days. Nothing makes me happier than knowing that I will have and hold you for as long as I live.

  Jean Moore

  Love, Night, Knowing

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• We listen too much to the telephone and we listen too little to nature. The wind is one of my sounds. A lonely sound, perhaps, but soothing. Everybody should have his personal sounds to listen for-sounds that will make him exhilarated and alive, or quiet and calm... As a matter of fact, one of the greatest sounds of them all-and to me it is a sound-is utter, complete silence.

  Andre Kostelanetz

  Should Have, Wind, Silence

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• I'm so high, it's so lonely up here

  Gucci Mane

  Weed, Smoking, Smoking Weed

  Song: My Kitchen

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• I was lonely driving here tonight so I hugged the road.

  Jay London

  Hug, Tonight, Driving

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• ...The more a person is inclined to gratitude, the less likely he or she is to be depressed, anxious, lonely, envious, or neurotic.

  Sonja Lyubomirsky

  Gratitude, Envious, Anxious

  Sonja Lyubomirsky (2007). “The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want”, p.81, Penguin

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• Brother woke just after midnight and he didn't make a sound, and as he climbed from out of bed with severed rings around his head, his feet didn't touch the ground. I could feel it then-a tiny miracle-so I followed him into the woods, crossed beneath the trees but only I left my prints in tow, he was afloat. He found a lonely tree and tied himself within its limbs, and he said to me these words: 'Don't you fear for me, I am where I'm supposed to be.'

  Radical Face

  Brother, Feet, Tree

  Song: Severus and Stone, Album: The Family Tree: The Roots

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• There came a time in every prolonged effort when he had a moment of near panic, or 'terror in a lonely place', the original semantic content of the word. The lonely place was his own mind.

  Don DeLillo

  Effort, Anxiety, Mind

  Don DeLillo (2016). “Ratner's Star”, p.92, Pan Macmillan

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• Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.

  Banana Yoshimoto

  Raised

  Banana Yoshimoto, Megan Backus (1979). “Three Plays”, p.21, Grove Press

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• You have two choices, [Plouffe] told Obama. You can stay in the Senate, enjoy your weekends at home, take regular vacations, and have a lovely time with your family. Or you can run for president, have your whole life poked at and pried into, almost never see your family, travel incessantly, bang your tin cup for donations like some street-corner beggar, lead a lonely, miserable life.

  John Heilemann

  Running, Home, Vacation

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• People are lonely. The network is seductive. But if we are always on, we may deny ourselves the rewards of solitude.

  Sherry Turkle

  People, Seductive, Solitude

  Sherry Turkle (2011). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.23, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Technology is seductive when what it offers meets our human vulnerabilities. And as it turns out, we are very vulnerable indeed. We are lonely but fearful of intimacy. Digital connections and the sociable robot may offer the illusion of companionship without the demands of friendship. Our networked life allows us to hide from each other, even as we are tethered to each other. We’d rather text than talk.

  Sherry Turkle

  Technology, Seductive, Connections

  Sherry Turkle (2017). “Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other”, p.27, Hachette UK

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• If we're not able to be alone, we're going to be more lonely. And if we don't teach our children to be alone, they're only going to know how to be lonely.

  Sherry Turkle

  Children, Motivation, Inspiration

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• There were times when i felt in a slump or lonely but i never thought of giving up

  Sandara Park

  Giving Up, Slumps, Felt

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• I'm not the only kid who grew up this way, surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones, as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called, and we got called them all. So we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us, that we'd be lonely forever, that we'd never meet someone to make us feel like the sun was something they built for us in their toolshed. So broken heartstrings bled the blues, and we tried to empty ourselves so we'd feel nothing. Don't tell me that hurts less than a broken bone...

  Shane Koyczan

  Hurt, Falling In Love, Believe

  "To This Day ... for the bullied and beautiful". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2013.

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• Maybe the world wasn’t made of universals that could be summed up in neat little packages. Maybe there were just people. People who were tired and hurt and lonely and kind in their own way and their own time.

  Clare Vanderpool

  Hurt, Tired, People

  Clare Vanderpool (2010). “Moon Over Manifest”, p.144, Delacorte Books for Young Readers

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• Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about.

  Maya Angelou

  Girl, Dance, Beach

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Oct 13, 2012

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• Never forget that you are a [child] of God. He loves you. Live by your standards. Stand up for what you believe in. Sometimes it is not easy, and you may be standing alone for a while. Look for friends with integrity and character, then go to them and express appreciation for their examples. You might even find someone who has been feeling as lonely as you. Pray for guidance and protection from the Lord. He will sustain you. He will become a trusted friend, and you will discover that your example will attract many friends who will take courage from your strength of character.

  W. Craig Zwick

  Appreciation, Children, Integrity

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• What is it that we call loneliness. It can’t simply be the absence of others, you can be alone and not lonely, and you can be among people and yet be lonely. So what is it?

  Pascal Mercier

  Loneliness, People, Absence

  Pascal Mercier (2009). “Night Train To Lisbon”, p.158, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• It's a lonely road for those of us who choose to be remarkable, and the path of convention can sometimes be appealing. That path is paved with safe lives, middle of the road monotony, and little chance of failure. But where's the fun in being like everyone else out there?

  Chris Guillebeau

  Fun, Safe, Littles

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• Once you're back on your feet - if you ever make it back on your feet - that's the ultimate achievement. I remember I was in New York at the Trump Hotel and I woke up and I just knew I was over it. It was a different day. I felt different. I didn't feel lonely. I felt like I wanted to get up and be in the world. That was a great, great feeling.

  Rihanna

  New York, Feet, Achievement

  "Rihanna on Chris Brown: 'I Needed That Wake-Up Call', www.usmagazine.com. October 26, 2010.

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• The Yogic sages say that all the pain of a human life is caused by words, as is all the joy. We create words to define our experience and those words bring attendant emotions that jerk us around like dogs on a leash. We get seduced by our own mantras (I'm a failure I'm lonely I'm a failure I'm lonely) and we become monuments to them. To stop talking for a while, then, is to attempt to strip away the power of words, to stop choking ourselves with words, to liberate ourselves from our suffocating mantras.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Dog, Pain, Talking

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2010). “The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims”, p.304, A&C Black

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