Quotation Explorer - 'Lonely'

The barriers between animal and human come down very easily. We belong to a single great family, and if we are lonely and unhappy we gladly accept the friendship of our distant relations. - Marlen Haushofer
Your path might be a lonely one... but, you are NOT alone! - Martin R. Lemieux
To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated, isolated, and lonely person - few love a spokesman for the despised and the damned. - Clarence Darrow
Two Homeless People In Love Are Happier Than A lonely Man Living Alone In His Castle - Ron Riccota
We didn't have to talk, and it wasn't awkward. We were just two lonely, out of place people sharing a holiday with junk food from the vending machine and a Claymation classic on the television." oh and later "I guess its a good thing we found each other then. - J.M. Richards Tall Dark Streak of Lightning
This time around I was so lonely that I was forced to be face to face with myself. Realizing at the end of the day I only have me and I didn't seem to like my own company. I decided to I had to make myself into someone I can live with. - kandi dougherty
Yes, I guess you could say I am a loner, but i feel more lonely in a crowded room with boring people then i feel on my owm. - Henry Rollins
It was cold, dark & lonely in the great cathedral-like chambers, with only coffins and corpses for company. - Billie-Jo Williams
What a lonely and silly thing it is to be an Armenian writer in America. - William Saroyan
I often choose to be alone, but I never feel lonely. - Debasish Mridha
Hey, Hank, I notice all the women around your place lately ... good looking stuff; you're doing all right.""Sam," I say, "that's not true; I am one of God's most lonely men. - Charles Bukowski
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. - Anaïs Nin
If I loved someone, I could never let him go away from me. I would be too miserable and lonely. - Valerie Tripp
The lonely tree keeps on searching for its solitude to end.....Why does the tree keep growing even when left alone, does it still want to survive, even when it knows it will remain in solitude 'till the last day...? - Nina LG
Unrequited love is the infinite curse of a lonely heart. - Christina Westover
Absence makes the heart grow fonder, but it sure makes the rest of you lonely. - Charles M. Schulz
These tears I'm wailing,I spill not without reason.Remove them, my dearest love.Take me to the place I've been dreaming of,where the grotesquely lonely meet the grotesquely lonelyand they whisper,just very softly,Please be mine, Dearest Love. - Morrissey
No man is lonely while eating spaghetti:it requires so much attention. - Christopher Morley
The lonely road to greatness is better than the crowded road to mediocrity. - Matshona Dhliwayo
If I can’t sing, then let me listen to the songs of the wilderness and let me watch the dance of a lonely leaf. - Debasish Mridha
I walk these lonely streets at dark. Just me and the night; crowded head, empty heart. - John Mark Green
Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are. - Tom Hanks
You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real. - Bruce Springsteen
As long as you write, you'll never be lonely. - Donna Lynn Hope
I might be alone, but i'm never lonely. - Megan Hart
It's sad to see just how many people are lonely together. - Wordions
Ambling Indian nuggets of wisdom A lover of books can never be lonely! - Aina Rao
If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company. - Jean-Paul Sartre
By some tear in the wish fabric, or the casting of a prayer, or the falling of some lonely star, the enchanted garden was not lost to me, but lost in me. - Ansul Noor
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
We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors - walking, leaping, climbing, dancing, preferably on lonely mountains or near the sea where even the trails become thoughtful. - Nietzsche
Some journeys, we must take alone. The caterpillar does not judge itself for craving the cocoon. Do not fear the isolated path. There, you will not be lonely. You will meet yourself. - Vironika Tugaleva
Eyes so young, so full of pain ... Two lonely drops of winter rain ... And no tear could these eyes sustain ... For too much had they seen. - Shaun Hick
Human Dignity has gleamed only now and then and here and there, in lonely splendor, throughout the ages, a hope of the better men, never an achievement of the majority. - James Thurber
This is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. - F.Scott Fitzgerlad
Every avalanche was once a lonely snowflake, every flood was once an aching raindrop. - Jenim Dibie
You get lonely, is what it is. A person's not supposed to go through life with absolutely nobody. It's not normal. The longer you go by yourself the weirder you get, and the weirder you get the longer you go by yourself. It's a loop and you gotta do something to get out of it. - Jim Shepard
Artists are strange people. They make the world a beautiful place, and make others feel good, but they are a bunch of lonely people. Artists are people with unfulfilled, unrealistic dreams, lonely, and always searching for perfection. - Ama H. Vanniarachchy
He fell in love with her house and land,He fell in love with her pension plan,He worked his way to her lonely heart,He was quite wily from the very start. - Charmaine J. Forde
OPPOSE, v. To assist with obstructions and objections. How lonely he who thinks to vex With bandinage the Solemn Sex! Of levity, Mere Man, beware; None but the Grave deserve the Unfair. Percy P. Orminder - Ambrose Bierce
If you're lonely when he's around, happiest when he's sad, and angry when he's overjoyed, get a new life. Without him. - Ace Antonio Hall
The lonely people have taught me, that I am not alone. - Anthony Liccione
Oh, the truth I must tellIs I'm lonely as hellStill looking for myself - The Summer Set
Webs of deceit were not only tangled, they were also very lonely. - Laura Lee Guhrke
If at anytime this life of ours grows feeble, or low, or lonely, I know no other remedy than to return to its Eternal Source, to God Himself; and through Him all the means of grace become again living and true; and through Him all His creatures become again near and dear and accessible - Elizabeth Rundle Charles
She didn't want to have anything to do with the party. She was tired of feeling like she didn't fit in, but she didn't want to go home, either, because she was a tired of being lonely and she was a little drunk. - Candace Bushnell
Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not let it drown in the noise of others. - Charlotte Eriksson
Why be crying, fearful, lonely, when you have the whole universe? Be still, listen to your heart, breathe, and know you need nothing. - Jay Woodman
We are not lonely, because we chose to be alone.We are not lost, because we chose to disappear. - Steven Wilson
Bedtime is fraught with fear and disappointment. When it is just me alone with my restless body and mind, I feel like the whole world is asleep and gone. It's very lonely. I am tired of being tired and talking about how tired I am. - Amy Poehler
London is not a good place to be when you are sad: so crowded it makes you feel lonely. - Moe Cidaly
There is a lot of pain in being lonely, but a lot of beauty in being alone. - Steven Aitchison
... shunning all offers of help, all offers of the more practical... This was his task, he said, and it would be carried out alone. Penance, my brother reminded me, was a lonely place to be. - Sarah Winman
Can’t you see…The stars tonight Baby I’m sitting hereDying For your light You’re killing me With your lonely nights ………………Baby what elseYou’re trying to prove Lower your fence I made my first move Take me back to your arms Tonight…………………. - sami abouzid
I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience. - Mother Teresa
Don't confuse love with the fear of being lonely... - Erik Tanghe
If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. - Jules Renard
You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with. - Wayne W. Dyer
Writing is lonely. Until that moment you write your first character and suddenly you have company. - Eliza Green
Never forget: loving, respecting; tolerances in your fellow-creature is a the lonely way of living free en gracefully and beautifully , and forever, never stop dreaming ,believing ,hoping and smiling and your be the most free in this slave world - Vanda Ileidy borges almeida
Dying, however, is lonely, the loneliest event of life. Dying not only separates you from others but also exposes you to a second, even more frightening form of loneliness: separation from the world itself. - IRVIN D.YALOM
... but she was also bewilderingly lonely... Abra had lost her gift for being alone. - John Steinbeck
I believe that you control your destiny, that you can be what you want to be. You can also stop and say, 'No, I won't do it, I won't behave his way anymore. I'm lonely and I need people around me, maybe I have to change my methods of behaving,' and then you do it. - Leo Buscaglia
Honesty. It's such a lonely word. - Billy Joel
If you build your life on one and only person, be prepared for none and lonely life - Prabakaran Thirumalai
The old gal was only another lonely creature in a world that didn’t care - Charles Bukowski
It's only natural to feel lonely after the enjoyable moments pass. But as you experience new joys those feelings of sorrow will start to fade. - Mizu Sahara
The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Every time you walk lonely, you get a very special gift: The silence! - Mehmet Murat ildan
Why do some brands grow explosively when others (that could be thriving) die a lonely and forgettable death? - David Brier
I have no home in the sense that is generally understood and so there is nothing to prevent me enjoying to the uttermost the spirit of wanderlust that has entered my soul. I am never lonely. How can I be when there is so much to see and admire in the world? - Gertrude Benham
Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely. - William Faulkner
I can hear your angered silence,Taste your bitterness.Now I smell your vengeance,Yet see your lonely emptiness.I am your broken heart. - Anonymous
Even a smile can help a lonely soul! - Mary Kate
She knew all the indices to the idle lonely, never bought a small tube of toothpaste, never dropped a magazine in her shopping card. - Joan Didion
I think one of the reasons why people tend to fake an entire relationship is maybe they are just afraid of being alone or are lonely right now! - Saif Ullah
I almost thought that marriage was a cure to loneliness, alas! so many are lonely inside marriage. Then I realized it's not marriage that takes the loneliness away, but when both within marriage honour God and the vows made before Him. - Gugu Mona
...I also believe that introversion is my greatest strength. I have such a strong inner life that I’m never bored and only occasionally lonely. No matter what mayhem is happening around me, I know I can always turn inward. - Susan Cain
How lonely it is!To be drowning,in a placewhere everyone can swim. - B. Damani
The quiet wasn't so lonely if you listened to how much sound was hidden in silence. - Rae Mariz
and he imagines carsand rides them in his dreams,so lonely growing up amongthe imaginary automobilesand dead souls of Tarrytownto createout of his own imaginationthe beauty of his wildforebears - a mythology he cannot inherit. - Allen Ginsberg
Traveling can get kind of lonely sometimes, er… no, not traveling. What is the word? Life. Life can get kind of lonely. - John Mulaney
When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone. - Tennessee Williams
When I feel lonely you are here beside me with your loving and caring touch. - Euginia Herlihy
She feels lonely all the time, she wants to be accepted, by anyone, on any terms, but she feels apart. As if nobody who really got to know her would trust her. - L.J. Smith
It's lonely up in the top - Kermit the Frog
It is a very lonely life that a man leads, who becomes aware of truths before their times.
No matter how lonely you get or how many birth announcements you receive, the trick is not to get frightened. There's nothing wrong with being alone. - Wendy Wasserstein
When you are lonely for a while don't get restless, if you had born alone, you are going to die alone then for sometime you can certainly live alone. - Amit Kalantri
It is in the company of others that one can be really lonely, for then one's personality is forced openly to try to express what it's separate individuality is. - Nanamoli Thera
Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else. - Steve Goodier
The brain is full of lonely ideas, begging you to make some sense of them, to recognize them as interesting. The lazy brain just files them away in old pigeonholes, like a bureaucrat who wants an easy life. The lively brain picks and chooses and creates new works of art out of ideas. - Theodore Zeldin
The road that leads to heaven is risky, lonely, and costly in this world, and few are willing to pay the price. Following Jesus involves losing your life-and finding new life in him. Follow Me, pg. 11 - David Platt
Spend Night with Lonely Married Women is pleasure Moments of the life.Life for Fun, not waste it.Being Human and do social responsibilities - Lolly
To fulfill a dream, to be allowed to sweat over lonely labor, to be given the chance to create, is the meat and potatoes of life. The money is the gravy. As everyone else, I love to dunk my crust in it. But alone, it is not a diet designed to keep body and soul together. - Bette Davis
If someone listens, or stretches out a hand, or whispers a kind word of encouragement, or attempts to understand a lonely person, extraordinary things begin to happen. - Loretta Girzaitis
April and May were painful, lonely months for me because I couldn't talk to you. I never knew that spring could be so painful and lonely. Better to have three Februaries than a spring like this. - Haruki Murakami
All the lonely people, where do they all come from? - The Beatles
Coming home from very lonely places, all of us go a little mad: whether from great personal success, or just an all-night drive, we are the sole survivors of a world no one else has ever seen. - John le Carre
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
We all have our own road to walk. Whether rocky, curving, straight or smooth, what good is a lonely road? It’s when we run and intersect with other roads that defines our road. When road meets road do we get direction, and choices to cross into another life. - Anthony Liccione
Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. - Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner. - Mary Shelley
Please, no one touch my heart. Don't touch it. Don't notice anything. No one has to know what my heart is feeling. I decided that I wouldn't turn back. That's why I threw everything away. So, don't you ever say, "I'm lonely. - Arina Tanemura
That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.
The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely. - Charlotte Brontë
sometime am feeling proud to have ma loneliness but, sometime am so feeling lonely. - kamal parvez
When we see a lonely fisherman, we ask where the boat is; when we see a lonely boat, we ask where the fisherman is! We love to see the good friends always together! - Mehmet Murat ildan
And it feels strange, almost sad, to walk through ther empty halls. Each step I take sounds so lonely. - Jay Asher
Life is for the loved, not the lonely." She lamented. "Although it's the lonely who try to make the world and its inhabitants less so. - Donna Lynn Hope
I’m still lonely and it’s a glorification of something I’m not finished with. I don’t want to be distracted from my work by other people, but the absence of it all distracts me from my work and that’s why I run towards the city, to get a little glimpse of it. - Charlotte Eriksson
She's one in a million. And that's why she's lonely. - Joyce Rachelle
May the Lord comfort the lonely and suffering souls. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Those who commit suicide, pensive, lonely, philosophers, are awake in life, which is a serious crime. In life everybody must be asleep. - Bangambiki Habyarimana
When you are lonely nothing can change the weather. - Ali Rezavand Zayeri
There is no feeling quite so lonely as failure. - Jeffrey Fry
If you are lonely, you feel separated from everybody. If you are in solitude, you feel you are in contact with the entire universe. - Siren Waroe
To share is precious, pure and fair.Don't play with something you should cherish for life. Don't you wanna care, ain't it lonely out there? - Marvin Gaye
What is it about men that make women so lonely? - Elliot Perlman
Be alone and love it. Be lonely and hate it. The first will empower you; the later will destroy you. Become your own best friend and never be lonely again. - Doobie Shemer
New scientific ideas never spring from a communal body, however organized, but rather from the head of an individually inspired researcher who struggles with his problems in lonely thought and unites all his thought on one single point which is his whole world for the moment. - Max Planck
Everyone is a lonely victim of life's complexity. - Ted Dekker
You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or is discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime. - Dale Carnegie
Some people are severely lonely, all they can do is accept the single life as an example of being free and happy. - Anthony Liccione
Ego doesn't kill you. It makes you lonely, which is even worse. - Saru Singhal
I feel so lonely every night and every day and I still push everyone away… - JJM
Writing is a lonely pursuit. The only thing working is imagination and hands.The only difference between writing and masturbation is one is presumably intended for a mass audience. - Mark Bell
Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone,And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood,Remember only this of our hopeless loveThat never till Time is doneWill the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one - Edith Sitwell
The difference between lonely and lovely is only of one single alphabet. That single alphabet is called Friends. - Sarvesh Jain
I know lonely can be hard, but the longer you stay in the wrong relationship, the longer it will take for the right one to find you. Don't stay in a relationship that doesn't build you up. - Elizabeth Bourgeret
[He] made me feel lonely, and being alone with another person is much worse than being alone all by yourself. - Lindy West
Doing evil to another person doesn't prove your love and loyalty to another person; it proves your significant other wants you to walk away from the light because they are lonely living in the dark. - Shannon L. Alder
I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can to just be still. - Steve Goodier
If you feel all damp and lonely like a mushroom, find the thick, creamy soup of joyfulness and just dive into it in order to make life tastier - Munia Khan
Did I read because I was lonely, or was I lonely because I started to read? - Grace Metalious
The lonely, wistful revisionism of memories is as gratingly repetitive as snow and ice in Canada. I avoid them both at all costs - memories and Canada. - Brian D'Ambrosio
To you who eat a lot of rice because you’re lonely, To you who sleep a lot because you’re bored, To you who cry a lot because you are sad, I write this down. Chew on your feelings that are cornerned like you would chew on rice.Anyway, life is something that you need to digest. - Chun Yang Hee
Being alone is better than sitting next to a lover and feeling lonely. - Richard Linklater
The meeting of the two lonely souls is the meeting of the dark sea with the moonlight. - Mehmet Murat ildan
There a lot of numbers you are going to pass for your life, Zero- is a born number One- is a lonely number Two- is a number of love Three- is a number of incomplete family Four- is a number of Family - Federico Lomibao
That’s love: Two lonely persons keep each other safe and touch each other and talk to each other. - Rainer Maria Rilke
Before meeting you, I didn't know what it was like to feel lonely. I never even considered myself to be alone. That's because when you feel lonely, it means that there is someone for you to miss. - Yuuki Obata
Anyone who feels to much or radiates extremity gets very lonely. - Chris Kraus
alone doesn't mean lonely. It just means alone. It just means that for now, you're on your own, and that's not a terrible thing. - Hemal Jhaveri
Independent radical women often live lonely lives if they expect equality. - Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
There is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd. - Claire North
I was amazed by the fact that I was not the only writer living, not the only young man "with a locomotive in his chest, and that's a fact," not the only youth with a million hungers and not one of them appeasable, not the only one who is lonely among multitudes, and does not know why. - Jack Kerouac
There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on 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 - George Gordon Byron
Always being myself and my salve, which is life. I’m not lonely, if that’s what it seems like. Always writing things down. - Chris Campanioni
The cold is lonely person's way of feeling alone and death - PureDragonWolf
Be kind to humanity, she is very lonely, everyone is busy with themselves. - Debasish Mridha
Mother Earth has never been more crowded, yet her inhabitants have never been more lonely. - Anasazi Foundation
Lonely and Alone: There's a difference. - Jerhia
In a lot of ways, living with Charlie was like having my own place, and I found myself reveling in the aloneness instead of being lonely. - Stephenie Meyer
I may be alone, but I am never lonely. I am always with my best friend, and that is me. - Debasish Mridha
I could still feel the ghost of him hovering in the quiet, dark recess of my heart. It was as if he was just waiting for me to be lonely, or to let my guard down, so that he could surface and fill my mind again with thoughts of him. - Colleen Houck
An unholy altered state of mindStalking with intent from behindThe needless lonely empty timeThat’s filled my life- that’s so unkind - Vin Romano
To ease the loneliness of the bridges, visit them sometimes! The forgotten ones must be remembered! Create some memories with them so that they will feel themselves less lonely! Memories are the enemies of solitude. - Mehmet Murat ildan
Power is lonely. Power stands apart. I have power. Therefore, I'm lonely. - Lesley Howarth
i feel lonely, it never goes away;the crowd makes me feel lonely - anth
So all I have is the knowledge that I saw! That I saw without being afraid and without turning away, and that I didn't forgive the unforgivable. Forgiveness is a reflex for when you can't stand what you know. I resisted that reflex. That's my sole, solitary, lonely accomplishment. - Jane Smiley
Until you experience real loneliness, you shall never know what real loneliness is. So many people feel miserable and lonely just because they ignore their inner man, create a gap between themselves and their inner man, and neglect their true self! - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
I realized that I'm lonely without her and she's incomplete without me. There will be no end to our love story.. - Taimoor Madni
Nobody can tell you if what you're doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is. - Hugh Macleod
All people are lonely in some ways. Some people are lonely in all ways."Now, Voyager" - Movie, 1942. - Casey Robinson
Writing is a lonely business, which if allowed publicity and socializing it might deteriorate. Supportive people understand the need of a writer to withdraw to the solitude of oneself. - Gloria D. Gonsalves
Don't let feeling lonely push you into the arms of a person who will make you miserable. - Stephan Labossiere
Doubt is a feeling too lonely to know that faith is its twin.
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