Lonely Quotes - Page 5

• Each of us is now electronically connected to the globe, and yet we feel utterly alone.

  Dan Brown

  Loneliness, Technology, People

  Dan Brown (2005). “Angels & Demons”, p.289, Simon and Schuster

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• If I am a legend, then why am I so lonely?

  Judy Garland

  Being Alone, Legends, Ifs

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

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• All great and precious things are lonely.

  John Steinbeck

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Precious Things

  John Steinbeck (2002). “East of Eden”, p.458, Penguin

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• We are born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Everything in-between is a gift.

  Yul Brynner

  Love, Life, Death

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  There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.

  Lord Byron

  Nature, Travel, Being Alone

  'Childe Harold's Pilgrimage' (1812-18) canto 4, st. 178

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• Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Love, Life, Relationship

  "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjold, 1964.

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• It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Loneliness, Being Alone

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• Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

  Carl Sandburg

  Loneliness, Learning, Creative

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• What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?

  George Eliot

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Trust Issues

  George Eliot (2016). “George Eliot Collection: Middlemarch, Adam Bede, Silas Marner, The Lifted Veil, and The Mill on the Floss”, p.935, Xist Publishing

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• Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

  Germaine Greer

  Wisdom, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Germaine Greer (1972). “The female eunuch”

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• We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2009). “Walden”, p.88, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Who knows what true loneliness is - not the conventional word but the naked terror? To the lonely themselves it wears a mask. The most miserable outcast hugs some memory or some illusion.

  Joseph Conrad

  Memories, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Under Western Eyes”, p.39, Joseph Conrad

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• Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?

  Haruki Murakami

  Loneliness, Sputnik, Earth

  "Sputnik Sweetheart". Book by Haruki Murakami, 1999.

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• you'll never be lonely if you learn to be friend your self

  David Archuleta

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Self

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• There's nothing wrong with being fired.

  Ted Turner

  Strong Women, Loneliness, Being Single

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• The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt.

  Frederick Buechner

  Life, Happiness, Ill Will

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• Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Men

  Thomas Wolfe (2016). “You Can't Go Home Again”, p.511, Thomas Wolfe

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• They are never alone that are accompanied with noble thoughts.

  Philip Sidney

  Single, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Philip Sidney (1901). “The Sidneys of Penshurst”

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• There is none more lonely than the man who loves only himself.

  Abraham ibn Ezra

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Men

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• Loneliness is the universal problem of rich people.

  Joan Collins

  Loneliness, Being Alone, People

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• The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.

  Norman Cousins

  Missing You, Heartbroken, Loneliness

  Norman Cousins (1974). “The celebration of life: a dialogue on immortality and infinity”, Harper San Francisco

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• I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Love, Men, Thinking

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.88, Courier Corporation

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• I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all.

  Haruki Murakami

  Disappointment, Loneliness, Way

  Haruki Murakami (2011). “Norwegian Wood”, p.68, Random House

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• I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

  Tom Cochrane

  Loneliness, Believe, Being Alone

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• A person's heart withers if it does not answer another heart.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Heart

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