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Quotes About Lonely

For at the last, O prophet, what is left? Only the gods of my childhood dead, and only Time striding large and lonely through the spaces, chilling the moon and paling the light of stars and scattering earthward out of both his hands the dust of forgetfulness over the fields of heroes and smitten Temples of the older gods.
~ Lord Dunsany
groupuscules making their lonely cataclysmic prophesies.
~ Louis Theroux
A churel is the peculiarly malignant ghost of a woman who has died in child-bed. She haunts lonely roads, her feet are turned backwards on the ankles, and she leads men to torment.
~ Rudyard Kipling
because I am the king of this world. That's right, Costello.' He stood once again, 'I was once the master and lord supreme of this dominion. These people are my people. The lonely virgins living in their moms' basement who never read a conspiracy theory they didn't believe, and who never saw a corpse within 25 miles of the Beltway that died of natural causes - they are,' and here McNamara raised his arms aloft, in the manner of a TV Evangelist, to mimic a Southern preachers accent, 'my people.
~ Sam Bourne
She was hollow and lost and abandoned up.
~ Alice Sebold
Like Jesus, who didn't know who his biological father was either. I have often thought it was this lack of knowledge of his earthly father that led him to his 'heavenly' one, for there is in all of us a yearning to know our own source, and no source is likely to seem too farfetched to a lonely, fatherless child.
~ Alice Walker
For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle, and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.
~ Alice Walker
The world knows the love that's in its breast as in the flower, the suffering lonely world. — Allen Ginsberg, from "Transcription of Organ Music," Howl and Other Poems (City Lights Books, 1994)
~ Allen Ginsberg
The world knows the love that's in its breast as in the flower, the suffering lonely world.
~ Allen Ginsberg
The first few days, the worst thing he seen Harold do was take a dump and use the pages from one of the camp library books for toilet paper." Renée winced. "It turned out to be The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter. Our only copy. If I had known what he was going to do with it, I would've given him a copy of Atlas Shrugged.
~ Joe Hill
The whole thing made Bill lonely as the last pig in a slaughterhouse line.
~ Joe R. Lansdale
You know, there is only one letter's difference between lonely and lovely," I told him once when he was down. "There is only one letter's difference between loner and loser," he retorted.
~ Joey Goebel
I've always dreamt of having some sort of undercover job. I think it's probably the coolest thing in the world, but ultimately a very lonely life.
~ Rashida Jones
I live a lonely photographic life here in Santa Fe. I do see Eliot Porter occasionally, and Ansel storms through every so often, otherwise I plug along in my old fashioned way.
~ Laura Gilpin
The skies they were ashen and sober;The leaves they were crispèd and sere—The leaves they were withering and sere:It was night in the lonesome OctoberOf my most immemorial year.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
Be to her, Persephone, All the things I might not be; Take her head upon your knee. She that was so proud and wild, Flippant, arrogant and free, She that had no need of me, Is a little lonely child Lost in Hell,—Persephone, Take her head upon your knee; Say to her, "My dear, my dear, It is not so dreadful here.
~ Edna St. Vincent Millay
Dar Dumnezeu e doar un ochi alb si rece, un sfert de luna atarnand deasupra fumului, clipind într-una, in timp ce oraÈ™ul e facut praf si pulbere.
~ Anthony Doerr
I think I was a pretty anxious dreamer, maybe a fundamentally lonely kid.
~ Karyn Kusama
When I met my Thai fans at the airport, all my stress went away. I don't feel lonely. I have friends like Kwang Soo to keep me company, and my fans make me feel loved.
~ Song Joong-ki
A Loveless Life is Like a Rudderless Ship Floating Uncontrollably in the Ocean of Life.
~ Agu, Jaachynma N.E.
Messenger of sympathy and love, Servant of parted friends, Consoler of the lonely, Bond of the scattered family, Enlarger of the common life.
~ Charles William Eliot
O Wedding-Guest! this soul hath been Alone on a wide wide sea: So lonely 'twas, that God himself Scarce seemed there to be.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Together, we looked down at the tiny house, the sole thing on this vast, flat surface. Like the only person living on the moon. It could be either lonely or peaceful, depending on how you looked at it. It's a start, I said.
~ Sarah Dessen
I've put in as many as 40 weeks a year on stage. It is lonely and restricted, as all artistic life must necessarily be.
~ Lillie Langtry