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Loneliness Quotes


"I would have to say loneliness is next to uncleanliness."


"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."


"If I only dated actresses, I'd be a very lonely man."


"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."


"I'd rather be lonely than happy with somebody else."


"How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road."


"The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely."


"No person can walk all alone because to walk all alone one must have no memories at all from the past!"


"Have you ever considered another type of loneliness; a good and healthy, happy loneliness?"


"Driving a desk was sometimes lonely, but Eddie had been in the drivers'-seat himself more than once, his aspirator riding there with him on the dashboard, its trigger reflected ghostly in the windshield (and a bucket-load of pills in the glove compartment), and he knew that real loneliness was a smeary red: the color of the taillights of the car ahead of you reflected on wet hottop in a driving rain."


"A box sits empty,wanting to hold and protect.Hollow tears it cries."


"It is so easy at times for a lonely individual to begin fantasizing about what the people outside are saying about him and, in result, irrationally and fearfully, and sometimes angrily, fancy himself a villain."


"If someone wants to suck your toes, those toes should be worth sucking."


"Companionship is a foreign concept to some people. They fear it as much as the majority of people fear loneliness."


"We're all outsiders in a way. We're all alone and can become very lonely."


"It's lonely and cold on the top... lonely and cold."


"If you often feel alone, ignored, or forgotten, think about this: closing the door and locking yourself in won't change anything-literally and figuratively."


"Loneliness tortures many if not most of the elderly more intensely and more frequently than it torments many if not most of us who will never be or have not yet been pushed or pulled into old age."


"You build walls to fortify your heart,and blame on others for your loneliness."


"When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone."


"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."


"Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone."


"One thing I've learned is that in the midst of your darkest moments of tribulation, there is no such thing as mass friends."


"I don't have a sidekick - no Ed McMahon. So when I go out there, I'm lonely. It's scary."


"He began to cry, not hysterically or screaming as people cry when concealed rage with tears, but with continuous sobs who has just discovered that he's alone and will be for long. He cried because safety and reason seemed to have left the world. Loneliness was a reality, but in this situation madness was also remotely a possibility."


"I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely."


"The trouble with living alone, she had discovered-and the reason why most people she knew didn't like to be alone even for a little while-was that the longer you lived alone, the louder the voices on the right side of your brain got."


"If it's about me, I can be assured that there will be a bunch of empty chairs in the auditorium of my life; save the one I'm sitting in."


"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."


"One moment you see that you aren't so Original... people leave you... people start ignoring you... people start making excuses."


"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."


"Nico was devastatingly alone. He'd lost his big sister Bianca. He'd pushed away all other demigods who'd tried to get close to him. His experiences at Camp Half-Blood, in the Labyrinth and in Tartarus had left him scarred, afraid to trust anyone."


"Can I be blamed for wanting a real body, to put my arms around? Without it I too am disembodied. I can listen to my own heartbeat against the bedsprings...but there's something dead about it, something deserted."


"The road had the lonely times, but I kept myself busy."


"Loneliness will give you the greatest chance of ever having a beautiful relationship with another person."


"You will always remain lonely till the day you meet a person who can understand your mind deeply!"
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