Lonely Quotes - Page 7

• Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.

  Erma Bombeck

  Inspirational, Dream, Clever

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• The individual has always to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Loneliness, Struggle

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• Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude.

  Maya Angelou

  Gratitude, Attitude, Night

  Maya Angelou (2008). “Letter to My Daughter”, p.32, Random House

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• What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Youth Of Today

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Self, People, Life Is

  "Awakenings".

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• No one ever discovers the depths of his own loneliness.

  Georges Bernanos

  Loneliness, Depth, Being Lonely

  Georges Bernanos, Rémy Rougeau (2002). “The Diary of a Country Priest”, p.223, Da Capo Press

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  I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Clever, Being Alone

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that I'm most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me.

  Anne Hathaway

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Feeling Alone

  Interview with Angelina Jolie, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 27, 2010.

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• What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.

  Ellen Burstyn

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Solitude

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  Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

  Edna Ferber

  Past, People, Mindfulness

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• No price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Being Yourself, Loneliness, Philosophical

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• When you have nobody you can make a cup of tea for, when nobody needs you, that's when I think life is over.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Inspiring, Loneliness, Thinking

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• Nothing makes us more vulnerable than loneliness except greed.

  Thomas Harris

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Greed

  Thomas Harris (2009). “The Silence of the Lambs”, p.319, Macmillan

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• When thinking about companions gone, we feel ourselves doubly alone.

  Walter Scott

  Loneliness, Thinking, Gone

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• There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

  James F. Cooper

  Nature, Earth Day, Solitude

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• We have often had this particular exchange about climate and landscape and why we both feel so lonely here uprooted. It was what each of us had wanted of course.Besides wanting to experience a place we hated, we wanted to be insomniacs and loners, losers and drop-outs. To know the sky was the only location of meaning and joy left to us.

  Fanny Howe

  Sky, Joy, Loner

  Fanny Howe (2000). “Indivisible”, Semiotext

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• Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape from the loneliness which afflicts most men and women throughout the greater part of their lives.

  Bertrand Russell

  Love, Life, Wedding

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Marriage and Morals”, p.79, Routledge

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• The surest cure for vanity is loneliness.

  Tom Wolfe

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Vanity

  "The American Mercury", p. 467, "The Anatomy of Loneliness", October 1941.

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• Lonely people, in talking to each other can make each other lonelier.

  Lillian Hellman

  Loneliness, Being Alone, Talking

  Lillian Hellman (1952). “The Autumn Garden: Play in Three Acts”, p.35, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I sit between my brother the mountain and my sister the sea. We three are one in loneliness, and the love that binds us together is deep and strong and strange.

  Khalil Gibran

  Strong, Brother, Loneliness

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Friendship, Loneliness, Love You

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.362

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• In 1970 I felt so lonely that I could not give; now I feel so joyful that giving seems easy. I hope that the day will come when the memory of my present joy will give me the strength to keep giving even when loneliness gnaws at my heart.

  Henri Nouwen

  Happiness, Memories, Loneliness

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• Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

  Bell Hooks

  Love, Life, Meaningful

  "Time Spent in a Psych Ward" by Erin Nugent, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 10, 2015.

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• I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Halloween, Fall, Autumn

  Henry David Thoreau, Laura Ross (2009). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods: Bold-faced Ideas for Living a Truly Transcendent Life”, p.50, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.

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  Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Music, Loneliness

  Twitter post from Oct 02, 2015

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