Lonely Quotes - Page 9

• Lonely, ain't it? Yes, but my lonely is mine. Now your lonely is somebody else's. Made by somebody else and handed to you. Ain't that something? A secondhand lonely.

  Toni Morrison

  Made, Mines

  Toni Morrison (1987). “Sula”

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• By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule -- From a wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE, out of TIME.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Angel, Night, Land

  Edgar Allan Poe (2014). “Complete Collection of Edgar Allan Poe - 170+ eBooks (Complete Tales, Poems, Novels, Essays, Miscellaneous, Play)”, p.745, Ageless Reads

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• i could have told him to learn from Gatsby. from the lonely, isolated Gatsby, who also tried to retrieve his past and give flash and blood to a fancy, a dream that was never meant to be more than a dream.

  Azar Nafisi

  Dream, Past, Blood

  Azar Nafisi (2015). “Reading Lolita in Tehran”, p.118, Penguin UK

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• We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and -- in spite of True Romance magazines -- we shall all someday look back on our lives and see that, in spite of our company, we were alone the whole way. I do not say lonely -- at least, not all the time -- but essentially, and finally, alone. This is what makes your self-respect so important, and I don't see how you can respect yourself if you must look in the hearts and minds of others for your happiness.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Inspirational, Being Single, Heart

  FaceBook post by Hunter S. Thompson from Dec 02, 2015

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• From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends. Books became her friends and there was one for every mood.

  Betty Smith

  Book, Reading, Missing

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• And there was that letter from the Bramleys—that really made me feel good. You don’t find people like the Bramleys now; radio, television and the motorcar have carried the outside world into the most isolated places so that the simple people you used to meet on the lonely farms are rapidly becoming like people anywhere else. There are still a few left, of course—old folk who cling to the ways of their fathers and when I come across any of them I like to make some excuse to sit down and talk with them and listen to the old Yorkshire words and expressions which have almost disappeared.

  James Herriot

  Father, Simple, Expression

  James Herriot (2012). “All Creatures Great and Small: The classic memoirs of a Yorkshire country vet”, p.313, Pan Macmillan

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• Lonely's like any other organism; competitive and resourceful in the struggle to perpetuate itself.

  Sebastian Faulks

  Struggle, Organisms, Resourceful

  Sebastian Faulks (2007). “Engleby: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• ...I couldn't let go of the thought that it had, in fact, been he, restless and moody Heathcliff. Day after day, he floated through all the Wal-Marts in America, searching for me in a million lonely aisles.

  Marisha Pessl

  Letting Go, America, Facts

  Marisha Pessl (2006). “Special Topics in Calamity Physics”, p.53, Penguin

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• He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Reading, School, Mirrors

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2017). “F. Scott Fitzgerald :This Side of Paradise followed by The Beautiful and Damned”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• The hungry feeling and the lonely feeling merged until it was hard to tell them apart.

  Rob Sheffield

  Feelings, Hungry, Hard

  Rob Sheffield (2007). “Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To”, p.174, Crown Archetype

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• I couldn't have felt more of lonely desolation somehow, had I been robbed of a belief or had missed my destiny in life.

  Joseph Conrad

  Destiny, Belief, Desolation

  Joseph Conrad (1999). “Heart of Darkness - Second Edition”, p.121, Broadview Press

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• What was the point in such loneliness among people. At least if you were by yourself, you had a good reason to be lonely.

  Janet Fitch

  Loneliness, People, Oleanders

  Janet Fitch (2013). “White Oleander”, p.83, Hachette UK

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• And his eyes frighten me, too. They're the eyes of an old man, an old man who's seen so much in life that he no longer cares to go on living. They're not even desperate... just quiet and expectant, and very, very lonely, as if he were quite alone of his own free choice.

  Anne Holm

  Eye, Men, Choices

  Anne Holm (1990). “North to Freedom”, Odyssey Classics

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• And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

  Maurice Sendak

  Kings, Max, Wild Things

  Maurice Sendak (1964). “Where the wild things are”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Everyone is lonely, we have to remember that life is to be lived one day at a time. You cannot worry about the past or future. Happiness is in the now.

  Claudia Gray

  Past, Worry, One Day At A Time

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• A visitor is a friend, he brings news, good or bad, which is bread to the hungry minds in lonely places. A real friend who comes to the house is a heavenly messenger, who brings the panis angelorum.

  Isak Dinesen

  Real, House, Mind

  Isak Dinesen (1987). “Out of Africa”, Crown Pub

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• Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine for satisfying hunger, without loyalty or honor or duty.

  Orson Scott Card

  Loyalty, Moving, Starting Over

  Orson Scott Card (2005). “Enchantment”, p.172, Del Rey

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• A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.

  John Steinbeck

  Nuts, Differences, Long

  John Steinbeck (2016). “Of Mice and Men”, p.35, Hamilton Books

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• That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all

  Nick Hornby

  People, Life Is, Worried

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.162, Penguin

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• ...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Confused, Taken, Loss

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.172, Penguin

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• Dean's California--wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to forgather like birds, and the land where everybody somehow looked like broken-down, handsome, decadent movie actors.

  Jack Kerouac

  Land, California, Broken

  Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

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• His brow is seamed with line and scar; His cheek is red and dark as wine; The fires as of a Northern star Beneath his cap of sable shine. His right hand, bared of leathern glove, Hangs open like an iron gin, You stoop to see his pulses move, To hear the blood sweep out and in. He looks some king, so solitary In earnest thought he seems to stand, As if across a lonely sea He gazed impatient of the land. Out of the noisy centuries The foolish and the fearful fade; Yet burn unquenched these warrior eyes, Time hath not dimmed, nor death dismayed.

  Walter de La Mare

  Kings, Stars, Moving

  Walter De la Mare (1920). “Collected Poems, 1901-1918”

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• It’s a very American illness, the idea of giving yourself away entirely to the idea of working in order to achieve some sort of brass ring that usually involves people feeling some way about you – I mean, people wonder why we walk around feeling alienated and lonely and stressed out.

  David Foster Wallace

  Mean, Order, Ideas

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• SOLIDAO, LONELINESS. 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? ... it isn't only that others are there, that they fill up the space next to us. But even when they celebrate us or give advice in a friendly conversation, clever, sensitive advice: even then we can be lonely. So loneliness is not something simply connected with the presence of others or with what they do. Then what? What on earth?

  Pascal Mercier

  Clever, Loneliness, Space

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• Miss Abigail, I want to be an author because writers know when a person is lonely. I mean, when Molly read me some books, those writers reached out and said, Look Gideon, we know about your loneliness and we know you're feeling downtrodden. And they said...I'll stand up for you. You're not lone anymore.

  Leon Uris

  Loneliness, Book, Mean

  Leon Uris (1989). “Mitla Pass”, Bantam

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