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Loneliness Quotes
"I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else."
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"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."
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"Loneliness becomes an acid that eats away at you."
69
"It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold."
68
"I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely."
64
"I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness."
61
"We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely."
60
"But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind."
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"There is no living being on earth at this moment except myself. I could walk down the halls, and empty rooms would yawn mockingly at me from every side. God, but life is loneliness, despite all the opiates, despite the shrill tinsel gaiety of 'parties' with no purpose, despite the false grinning faces we all wear. And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter - they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long. Yes, there is joy, fulfillment and companionship - but the loneliness of the soul in it's appalling self-consciousness, is horrible and overpowering."
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"The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy."
59
"Because it doesn't matter anymore, and because I'm so desperately lonely I can't stand it."
58
"Feeling lonely? Wish you had a special someone to help fill the void? Reconsider your definition of romance, reconnect to your passions and be swept away."
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"I wouldn't want them to feel lonely or outcast ever in any way. And no matter where they were in the world, I'd want them to always feel incredibly confident about who they were and proud."
55
"He takes a few dazed steps, the waiters turn out the lights and he slips into unconsciousness: when this man is lonely he sleeps."
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"Everyone has instances or times in life when they feel alone on their journey."
54
"I've got no mother, no wife, no kids. I had, but my mother's dead, and I lost my wife and my kids when I had my trouble. Women are bitches. It's hard for a chap to live without any affection in his life."
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"But she wasn't around, and that's the thing when your parents die, you feel like instead of going in to every fight with backup, you are going into every fight alone."
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"Being all alone is like the feeling you get when you stand at the mouth of a large river on a rainy evening and watch the water flow into the sea. Have you ever done that? Stand at the mouth of a large river and watch the water flow into the sea?"
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"The worst thing about loneliness is that it brings one face to face with oneself."
53
"I am inhabited by a cry. Nightly it flaps outLooking, with its hooks, for something to love."
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"You will never be alone if you like the person you are with when you are by yourself."
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"Eventually, we all end up alone."
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"Nobody likes being alone that much. I don't go out of my way to make friends, that's all. It just leads to disappointment."
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"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely."
50
"I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary."
50
"Without turning on the light, I went to my bed and lay down, my arm thrown across the mattress, my hand aching because Grace wasn't underneath it."
50
"Nothing is in the middle of somewhere, surrounded by everything, where everyone is someplace, and still lacking the someone, I need most."
50
"For now, I'm just going to hang out with these two smoking hotties and fly privately around the world. It might be lonely up here, but I sure like the view."
49
"Sometimes we don't need to eat or drink as much as we do, but it has become a kind of addiction. We feel so lonely. Loneliness is one of the afflictions of modern life. It is similar to the Third and Fourth Precpets--we feel lonely, so we engage in conversation, or even in a sexual relationship, hoping that the feeling of loneliness will go away. Drinking and eating can also be the result of loneliness. You want to drink or overeat in order to forget your loneliness, but what you eat may bring toxins into your body. When you are lonely, you open the refrigerator, watch TV, read magazines or novels, or pick up the telephone to talk. But unmindful consumption always makes things worse (68)."
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"Maybe all that silence about my brother did something to me. I think it did. Not talking can make a guy pretty lonely."
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"I was feeling lonely without her, but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation. Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling. It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off."
47
"How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road."
46
"It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant."
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"All I know is I'm totallyalone. All alone i n an unfamiliar place, like some solitary explorer who's lost his compass and his map. Is this what it means to be free? I don't know, and I give up thinking about it."
46
"Alone. Yes, that's the key word, the most awful word in the English tongue. Murder doesn't hold a candle to it and hell is only a poor synonym."
46
"Durum semolina, golden wheat wafting in Italian fields. Can you imagine how astonished the Italians would be if they knew that what they were exporting in 1971 was really loneliness."
46
"But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o'clock in the morning."
44
"Because sometimes I have a need for human warmth, I answered honestly. Sometimes, if I can't feel something like the warmth of a woman's skin, I get so lonely I can't stand it."
44
"One day you will be the only one in the room not living."
43
"If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man."
42
"The final outcome cannot be known, either to the originator of a new theory, or to his colleagues and critics, who are bent on falsifying it. Thus, the scientific innovator may feel all the more lonely and uncertain."
42
"Sometimes I feel so- I don't know - lonely. The kind of helpless feeling when everything you're used to has been ripped away. Like there's no more gravity, and I'm left to drift in outer space with no idea where I'm going'Like a little lost Sputnik?'I guess so."
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