Lonely Quotes - Page 37

• But who can count the beatings of the lonely heart?

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier

  Heart, Lonely Heart

  Susan Edmonstone Ferrier (1841). “The inheritance, by the author of Marriage. By the author of 'Marriage'. Revised by the author”, p.434

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• It is not darkness you are going to, for God is Light. It is not lonely, for Christ is with you. It is not unknown country, for Christ is there.

  Charles Kingsley

  Country, Light, Darkness

  Charles Kingsley, Frances Eliza Kingsley (2011). “Charles Kingsley, His Letters and Memories of His Life”, p.456, Cambridge University Press

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• Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big difference between being a writer and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at the typewriter. You've got to want to write, I say to them, not want to be a writer. The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune, there are thousands more whose longing is never requited. Even those who succeed often know long periods of neglect and poverty. I did.

  Alex Haley

  Dream, Writing, Reality

  "Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work". Book by Jack Canfield, Maida Rogerson, Mark Victor Hansen, and Martin Rutte, 1996.

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• There is nothing more lonely than a true artist.

  Tom Spanbauer

  Artist, True Artists

  Tom Spanbauer (2007). “In the City of Shy Hunters”, p.75, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I was a lonely, frightened little fat kid who felt there was something deeply wrong with me because I didn't feel like I was the gender I'd been assigned. I felt there was something wrong with me, something sick and twisted inside me, something very very bad about me. And everything I read backed that up.

  Kate Bornstein

  Kids, Sick, Littles

  Kate Bornstein (2013). “Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us”, p.22, Routledge

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• I have served many long and lonely years aboard ship in war zones, and the only thing that kept me sane during all that enforced loneliness was my access to a good library in which I read, literally, every book on the shelves, even textbooks, and which gave me access to other worlds no way open to me.

  Don Pendleton

  War, Loneliness, Book

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• If the Lord sets you to guard a lonely post in perfect stillness from all active work, you ought to be just as content as to be in the midst of the active warfare. It is no virtue to love the Master's work better than the Master's will.

  Hannah Whitall Smith

  Perfect, Warfare, Virtue

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• I don’t mind being alone either. The only problem is that if you’re always alone, you get lonely.

  Colleen Houck

  Mind, Problem, Always Alone

  Colleen Houck (2011). “Tiger's Curse: Tiger Saga”, p.86, Hachette UK

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• When small drops began to fall and darken the world in penny-shaped circles, no one around him scurried for cover. For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

  Simon Van Booy

  Rain, Fall, Circles

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• Should you ever feel too lonely...listen for the roar of the sea- for in it are all those who've been and all those who are to come.

  Simon Van Booy

  Sea, Should, Feels

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• For lonely people, rain is a chance to be touched.

  Simon Van Booy

  Rain, People, Chance

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• The writer labors in isolation, yet all that intensive, lonely work is in the service of communicating, is an attempt to reach another person.

  Betsy Lerner

  Isolation, Communicate, Labor

  Betsy Lerner (2016). “The Forest for the Trees: An editor's advice to writers”, p.6, Pan Macmillan

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• Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day.

  Winston Churchill

  Light, The End Of The Day, Ends

  Dame Mary Soames, Sir Winston Churchill (1990). “Winston Churchill: His Life as a Painter : a Memoir by His Daughter”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• Why should I feel lonely? is not our planet in the Milky Way?

  Henry David Thoreau

  Way, Should, Planets

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.208

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• I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!

  Charles Bukowski

  Loneliness, Wine, Entertainment

  Charles Bukowski (2003). “Sunlight Here I Am: Interviews and Encounters, 1963-1993”

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• People make interesting assumptions about the profession. The writer is a mysterious figure, wandering lonely as a cloud, fired by inspiration, or perhaps a cocktail or two.

  Sara Sheridan

  Inspiration, Clouds, Two

  "What Writers Earn: A Cultural Myth" by Sara Sheridan, www.huffingtonpost.co.uk. April 24, 2013.

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• To live a present and awakened life, simply be responsive to the moment. It is very simple. If you are hungry, eat. If you are thirsty, drink. If you are lonely, call a friend for tea. If you are overwhelmed with too much company, then get away by yourself.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Simple, Tea, Too Much

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• Life is made of moments and choices. Not all of them matter, or have any lasting impact Then there's a different kind of moment. One when things are irrevocably changed by a choice we make. A moment we will play endlessly in our minds on lonely nights and empty days So we explain it to ourselves, justify it enough to sleep. And then we bury it deep, so deep we can almost pretend it never happened. But as much as we wish it were different, the truth is, our worlds are sometimes balanced on choices we make and the secrets we keep.

  Jessi Kirby

  Sleep, Night, Impact

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• Evolution is an unproven theory. If what its fundamentalist supporters believe is true, fishes decided to grow lungs and legs and walk up the beach. The idea is so comically daft that only one thing explains its survival-that lonely, frightened people wanted to expel God from the Universe because they found the idea that He exists profoundly uncomfortable.

  Peter Hitchens

  Beach, Believe, Ideas

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• Autumn clouds, vague and obscure; The evening, lonely and chill. I felt the dampness on my garments, But saw no spot, and heard no sound of rain.

  Bai Juyi

  Summer, Rain, Autumn

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• Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely.

  Richard Linklater

  Feelings, Sitting, Next

  Richard Linklater (2008). “Before Sunrise & Before Sunset: Two Screenplays”, p.192, Vintage

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• I'd rather be a silly old fool than a lonely old woman.

  Candy Darling

  Silly, Fool, Old Woman

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• Clyde Phillip Wachsberger's delightful memoir about tending beds of flowers as compensation for a lonely middle age only to find unexpected romance along the way is a sweet reminder that, as he puts it, 'anything can happen in a garden.' In prose that balances candor with perfect courtesy, he charms us with the message that keeping a garden with a beloved companion, this most ephemeral of all the arts, can bring us the most enduring joys and pleasures.

  Philip Gambone

  Sweet, Art, Flower

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• I am one of the searchers. There are millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery & unspeakable beauty. We like forests & mountains, deserts & hidden rivers, & lonely cities. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know.

  James Kavanaugh

  Laughter, Ocean, Taken

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• For wanderers, dreamers, and lovers, for lonely men and women who dare to ask of life everything good and beautiful. It is for those who are too gentle to live among wolves.

  James Kavanaugh

  Beautiful, Men, Dreamer

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