Lonely Quotes - Page 38

• Women would be better off when they no longer needed men more than they needed their own independent identities...How long a time it took me after my divorce to understand that being alone is not the same as being lonely.

  Alice Steinbach

  Independent, Divorce, Men

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• Was I being groomed for some special mission? What possible purpose could an existence like mine serve? When I wasn’t drinking in crappy bars, I was home by myself reading: a life that was achingly lonely, and yet perversely designed to prevent anybody from ever getting close enough to really know me.

  Heather King

  Drinking, Reading, Home

  Heather King (2006). “Parched”, p.16, Penguin

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• To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Memories, Life And Love, Spring

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• Find your own Calcutta. Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are in your own homes and in your own families, in your workplaces and in your schools. You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see. Everywhere, wherever you go, you find people who are unwanted, unloved, uncared for, just rejected by society completely forgotten, completely left alone.

  Mother Teresa

  Home, School, Eye

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• When I was growing up, books took me away from my life to a solitary place that didn't feel lonely. They celebrated the outcasts, people who sat on the margins of society contemplating their interiors. . . Books were my cure for a romanticized unhappiness, for the anxiety of impending adulthood. They were all mine, private islands with secret passwords only the worthy could utter.

  Jodie Foster

  Growing Up, Book, Islands

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• Who am I? this or the other?
  Am I one person today and tomorrow another?
  Am I both at once? A hypocrite before others,
  and before myself a contemptible woebegone weakling?
  Or is something within me still like a beaten army fleeing
  in disorder from a victory already achieved?
  Who am I? They mock me, these lonely questions of mine.
  Whoever I am, Thou knowest, O God, I am thine!

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Hypocrite, Army, Victory

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer (2012). “The Cost of Discipleship”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• The great battles, the battles that decide our destiny and the destiny of generations yet unborn, are not fought on public platforms, but in the lonely hours of the night and in moments of agony.

  Samuel Logan Brengle

  Religious, Prayer, Fighting

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• Lonely? Give it to Jesus. The loneliness itself is material for sacrifice.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Jesus, Loneliness, Sacrifice

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• The empty, the angry, the lonely, the tricked, we are all museums of fear.

  Charles Bukowski

  Museums, Empty, Angry

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• True individuality can be lonely.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Inspiring, Individuality

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (2014). “First, Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.101, Simon and Schuster

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• A thousand hills, but no birds in flight,
  Ten thousand paths, with no person's tracks.
  A lonely boat, a straw-hatted old man,
  Fishing alone in the cold river snow.

  Liu Zongyuan

  Men, Fishing, Rivers

  Liu Zongyuan, “River Snow”

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• Even in populous districts, the practice of medicine is a lonely road which winds up-hill all the way and a man may easily go astray and never reach the Delectable Mountains unless he early finds those shepherd guides of whom Bunyan tells, Knowledge, Experience, Watchful, and Sincere.

  William Osler

  Men, Practice Of Medicine, Wind

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.273, Duke University Press

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• If they don't board and live by themselves, even in their second year they've got no lounge or kitchen table and it's a pretty lonely existence when you get home to an empty house. Homesickness is a key issue for kids who are drafted interstate, whether they are going to Melbourne or coming to Perth or going to Brisbane. All the kids we've drafted this year will all go through periods of homesickness, which can lead to worse things.

  Trevor Nisbett

  Home, Kids, Keys

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• Since I am from Spain, once the morning has gone, I like to take a nap while falling asleep to black and white movies. It feels less lonely. There is a comfort in hearing their voices, like when you're a child and your mother tells you a story before bedtime.

  Jordi Molla

  Mother, Morning, Children

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• If I had a dog I would not feel so lonely, but I suppose that is asking for too much.

  Eva Braun

  Friendship, Dog, Asking

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• As we learn to share and give and care, love increases. A person who knows how to love does not seem to feel lonely or alone. In this sense, the power of love can become a true weapon against harm.

  John Templeton

  Love, Giving, Doe

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• None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades.

  Paul Rogat Loeb

  Inspirational, Imagination, Support

  Paul Rogat Loeb (2010). “Soul of a Citizen: Living with Conviction in Challenging Times”, p.115, Macmillan

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• We are, many of us, a planet orbiting somebody's sun, unconscious of a lonely moon, orbiting our planet.

  Robert Breault

  Relationship, Moon, Sun

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• God isn't calling us to a lonely, joyless existence with the promise of a delayed reward. God is calling us to live, to love and enjoy the challenge. God's formulas are roadmaps to freedom and peace. God is saying to us: "The only way to live is to be free. So save your heart for love and save your love for persons. Don't ever let any 'thing' own you. Don't let money or fame or power or the pursuit of pleasure put a ring in your nose and lead you around. Love persons and use things." And of course, this is the only way to live, to be free.

  John Powell

  God, Heart, Challenges

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• I was an only child. I did have kind of like a lonely existence.

  Robin Williams

  Children, Only Child, One Line

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• O your life, your lonely lifeWhat have you ever done with it,And done with the great gift of consciousness?What will you ever do before Death's knifeProvides the answer ultimate and appropriate?As I for my part felt in my heart as one who falls,Falls in a parachute, falls endlessly, and feels the vastDraft of the abyss sucking him down and down,An endlessly helplessly falling and appalled clown:This is the way the night passes by, thisIs the overnight endless trip to the famous unfathomable abyss.

  Delmore Schwartz

  Fall, Heart, Night

  Delmore Schwartz, “All Night, All Night”

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• To all who suffer- to all who feel discouraged, worried, or lonely- I say with love and deep concern for you, never give in. Never surrender. Never allow despair to overcome your spirit. Embrace and rely upon the Hope of Israel, for the love of the Son of God pierces all darkness, softens all sorrow, and gladdens every heart.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Heart, Son, Rely Upon

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• Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

  Stephen King

  Jobs, Ocean, Writing

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.210, Simon and Schuster

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• Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Anger, Envy, Tag

  Mignon McLaughlin (2014). “Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin”, p.47, BookBaby

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• The few surviving Armenians no longer ask to go home. They do not ask for restitution. They ask simply to have the memory of their obliteration acknowledged. It is a moral obsession, the lonely legacy passed onto the third and fourth generation who no longer speak Armenian but who carry within them the seeds of resentment that will not be quashed.

  Chris Hedges

  Memories, Home, Legacy

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